## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <witList>

`<witList>` | (witness list) contains a list of all the witnesses referred to in `<wit>` elements or `wit` attributes within the critical apparatus.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from chunk

Example

Note

The provision of a `<witList>` element simplifies the automatic processing of the apparatus, e.g. the reconstruction of the readings for all witnesses from an exhaustive apparatus.

Situations commonly arise where there are many more or less fragmentary witnesses, such that there may be quite distinct groups of witnesses for different parts of a text or collection of texts. One may treat this with distinct `<witList>` elements for each different part. Alternatively, one may have a single `<witList>` element at the beginning of the file listing all the witnesses, partial and complete, for the text, with the attestation of fragmentary witnesses indicated within the apparatus by use of the `<witStart>` and `<witEnd>` elements described in section 19.1.5 Fragmentary Witnesses.

Module | Declared in file teitc2; Additional tag set for Textual Criticism: enabled by TEI.textcrit
Class | chunk
Data Description | May contain a series of `<witness>` elements.
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 respons span spanGrp timeline witness
May occur within | add argument body castList corr div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epigraph epilogue item metDecl note performance prologue q quote set sic stage view

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT witList %om.RO; ((%m.Incl;)*, (witness, (%m.Incl;)*)+)>
    <!ATTLIST witList
          %a.global;>

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

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