[tei-council] witList/Group query

[Lou Burnard]

Thanks Daniel, but this does not address the question. By "overlapping" 
I did not mean "containing". Let me rephrase the question: if to witness 
A is allocated to witGroup sigma, does that always preclude it 
simultaneously being allocated to witGroup delta?  I have modified the 
text on the assumption that it does, but would just like to check that 
that is indeed the case. (The former state of affairs, using the 
attribute @included, did not enforce such a rule, of course)

More significantly, looking at this again, I really want to know why we 
need this element <witness> at all. Why isn't it a (possibly 
abbreviated) <msDesc>?



Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> 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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