Misprints
The texts are transcribed in accordance with the original. However, if printing errors are reliably detected during the recording process, they can be corrected. The <choice> element is used for this purpose. It contains a <sic> element that documents the erroneous form and a <corr> element in which the correction takes place.
<choice>
<sic>[erroneous form]</sic>
<corr>[corrected form]</corr>
</choice>
A form tagged as erroneous must always be accompanied by a correction, i. e. the <sic> element can never stand without <choice> and <corr>.
Correction of Printing Errors I
Er fuhr <choice><sic>unn</sic><corr>nun</corr></choice> fort:
Source: Kerner, Justinus: Geschichten Besessener neuerer Zeit. Karlsruhe, 1834. [Facsimile 106]
Correction of Printing Errors II
<choice> <sic>mittlerr</sic> <corr>mittlern</corr> </choice>
To describe to which source the classification of a spelling as printing error goes back to, a @type attribute can be added to the <corr> element, which can take the following values:
"addenda" |
error listed in the addenda of the work concerned |
"corrigenda" |
misprints recorded in the corrigenda of the work concerned |
"editorial" |
print error identified by the editor |
This indication of the type of correction is optional (level 3).
As a result of printing errors, new characters may appear that have no equivalent in the corresponding alphabet (e. g. upside down "e"). These characters are not reproduced even if a corresponding or similar character exists in the Unicode character set. Instead, the Unicode entity U+FFFC (placeholder in text for an otherwise unspecified object) is used. In this way, the existence of the printing error is documented, but it is not reproduced with a deviating semantics (e. g. e-schwa for upside down e).
Correction of Printing Errors III
Glauben zu <choice><sic>findn</sic><corr>finden</corr></choice>, wenn