## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <rdgGrp>

`<rdgGrp>` | (reading group) within a textual variation, groups two or more readings perceived to have a genetic relationship or other affinity.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from readings

Example

    <app>
       <lem wit="El Ra2">though</lem>
       <rdgGrp type="orthographic">
          <rdg wit="Hg">thogh</rdg>
          <rdg wit="La">thouhe</rdg>
       </rdgGrp>
    </app>

Note | Note that only one `<lem>` element may appear within a single apparatus entry, whether it appears outside a `<rdgGrp>` element or within it.
Module | Declared in file teitc2; Additional tag set for Textual Criticism: enabled by TEI.textcrit
Class | readings
Data Description | May contain readings and nested reading groups.
May contain | addSpan alt altGrp anchor cb certainty delSpan fLib fs fsLib fvLib fw gap index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lb link linkGrp milestone pb rdg rdgGrp respons span spanGrp timeline wit
May occur within | app rdgGrp

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT rdgGrp %om.RO; ((%m.Incl;)*, ( (rdgGrp, (%m.Incl;)*)
                         | (rdg, (%m.Incl;)*, (wit, (%m.Incl;)*)?) )+) >
    <!ATTLIST rdgGrp
          %a.global;
          %a.readings;>

See further | 19.1 The Apparatus Entry, Readings, and Witnesses

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