| wit | (witness or witnesses) contains a list of one or more pointers indicating the witnesses
                              which attest to a given reading. 
                                 
                                    | Zustand | Obligatorisch wenn zutreffend |  
                                    | Datentyp | 1–∞ Vorkommen von 
                                       Durch Leerzeichen getrennt |  
                                    | Werte | A space-delimited series of sigla; each sigil should correspond
                                       to a witness or witness group and occur as the value of the
                                       xml:id attribute on a witness element elsewhere in the
                                       document. |  | 
                        
                        
                           | type | classifies the reading according to some useful typology. 
                                 
                                    | Zustand | Optional |  
                                    | Datentyp |  |  
                                    | Beispielwerte sind etwa: | 
                                          substantivethe reading offers a substantive variant.orthographicthe reading differs only orthographically, not in substance,
                                             from other readings.
                                           |  | 
                        
                        
                           | cause | classifies the cause for the variant reading, according to
                              any appropriate typology of possible origins. 
                                 
                                    | Zustand | Optional |  
                                    | Datentyp |  |  
                                    | Beispielwerte sind etwa: | 
                                          homeoteleutonhomeoarchypaleographicConfusionhaplographydittographyfalseEmendation |  | 
                        
                        
                           | varSeq | (variant sequence) provides a number indicating the position of this reading in a
                              sequence, when there is reason to presume a sequence to the variants
                              on any one lemma. 
                                 
                                    | Zustand | Optional |  
                                    | Datentyp |  |  
                                    | Werte | a positive integer |  | 
                        
                        
                           | hand | signifies the hand responsible for a particular reading in the
                              witness. 
                                 
                                    | Zustand | Optional |  
                                    | Datentyp |  |  
                                    | Werte | must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document
                                       header (see section 11.4.1 Document Hands). |  |