| 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. |
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| type | classifies the reading according to some useful typology.| Zustand | Optional |
| Datentyp | |
| Beispielwerte sind etwa: | - substantive
- the reading offers a substantive variant.
- orthographic
- the reading differs only orthographically, not in substance,
from other readings.
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| cause | classifies the cause for the variant reading, according to
any appropriate typology of possible origins.| Zustand | Optional |
| Datentyp | |
| Beispielwerte sind etwa: | - homeoteleuton
- homeoarchy
- paleographicConfusion
- haplography
- dittography
- falseEmendation
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| 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 |
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| 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). |
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