## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <witDetail>

`<witDetail>` | gives further information about a particular witness, or witnesses, to a particular reading.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes and those inherited from notes)

`target` | indicates the identifier for the reading, or readings, to which the witness detail refers.
| Datatype: IDREFS
| Values: the identifier of the reading or readings.
| Default: #REQUIRED

Example:

`resp` | (responsibility) identifies the individual responsible for identifying the witness
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string of characters, typically the initials of the individual involved, or a role identifier like ‘editor’ if not known by name.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`wit` | indicates the sigil or sigla for the witnesses to which the detail refers.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: the identifier of the sigil or sigla.
| Default: #REQUIRED

Example:

Note | In local encoding schemes, the value of the `wit` attribute can be enforced as IDREFS, such that only witnesses referred to in a `<witList>` element may be the subject of a `<witDetail>`.
`type` | describes the type of information given about the witness.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Values can be taken from any convenient typology of annotation suitable to the work in hand; e.g. letter form, ornament, ...
| Default: #IMPLIED
`place` | indicates where the note appears in the source text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: As for the `<note>` element.
| Default: apparatus

Example:

Note | For pages with multiple apparatus, values such as app1 and app2 can be used. The `place` attribute can be used to indicate to text formatting software where a note should be printed. If the locations indicated do not agree with those in the copy text, that fact should be indicated in the TEI header.

Example

Note

The `<witDetail>` element should be regarded as a specialized type of `<note>` element; it is synonymous with `<note type='witness detail'>`. It differs from the general purpose `<note>` in the omission of some attributes seldom applicable to notes within critical apparatus, and in the provision of the `wit` attribute, which permits an application to extract all annotation concerning a particular witness or witnesses from the apparatus.

Module Declared in file teitc2; Additional tag set for Textual Criticism: enabled by TEI.textcrit
Class notes
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May occur within ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def descrip dictScrap div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph entryFree epigraph epilogue etym figDesc foreign form gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region rendition seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT witDetail %om.RO; %paraContent;>
    <!ATTLIST witDetail
          %a.global;
          target IDREFS #REQUIRED
          resp CDATA #IMPLIED
          wit CDATA #REQUIRED
          type CDATA #IMPLIED
          place CDATA "apparatus">

See further 19.1 The Apparatus Entry, Readings, and Witnesses

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