<listWit>
| <listWit> (witness list) lists definitions for all the witnesses referred to by a critical apparatus, optionally grouped hierarchically. 12.1 The Apparatus Entry, Readings, and Witnesses | |
| Module | textcrit — 12 Critical Apparatus |
| Attributes | Global attributes only |
| Used by | listWit model.listLike |
| May contain | |
| Declaration | element listWit { att.global.attributes, ( model.headLike?, ( witness | listWit )+ ) } |
| Note | May contain
a series of <witness> or <listWit> elements.
The provision of a <listWit> 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. Such groups may be given separately, or nested within a single
<listWit> 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
12.1.5 Fragmentary Witnesses. Note however that a given witness can only be defined once, and can
therefore only appear within a single <listWit> element. |