[tei-council] witList/Group query

[Daniel O'Donnell]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:09 +0100, Lou Burnard wrote:
> TRAC ticket 332 states  gnomically "change witList to witGroup, allow it 
> to self-nest, and drop @included."
> 
> I'm just about to make the recommended changes but would like to check 
> that Council's recommendation was made in full understanding of the 
> implication that a given witness can only appear in one witGroup (or 
> witList). Certainly makes things simpler and clearer, but does it 
> correspond with reality? Do textual critix never talk about overlapping 
> groups of witnesses, or witnesses which appear in more than one group?

Because witgroup overlaps, you can have subdivisions--I.e. I can be in a
group within a group. So a witness can still be in a larger group as
well as its own group.

The main thing here, as I remember, was to avoid the situation where you
end up with the following:

wit a
wit b
wit c
wit sigma (consensus of a,b,c)

this should now be:

witgroup/sigma|witgroup/wit a|wit b|wit c

You could get more complicated, of course and have things like

witgroup/sigma|witgroup/wit a|witgroup/wit b|wit c

-d

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