Editorial Comment

Editorial comments can be added to a text in two ways.

a) in the text, at certain points: For editorial comments in the text, the <note type="editorial"> element is available. This can be placed directly after the passage requesting the comment. No material from the source is reproduced within <note type="editorial">.

<p>[...]
  <note type="editorial">[comment]</note>
  [...]
</p>

b) in the text, related to a specific text passage: If a text passage to which the editorial comment refers is to be tagged, it is enclosed with the <ref> element, which receives the attribute value pair @type="editorialNote". The link between the text passage and the corresponding editorial comment is realized by using the attributes @xml:id and @corresp.

<p>[...]
  <ref type="editorialNote" xml:id="[ID-Textstelle]" corresp="#[ID-Kommentar]">[text passage]</ref>
  <note type="editorial" xml:id="[ID-Kommentar]" corresp="#[ID-Textstelle]">[comment]</note>
  [...]
</p>

c) Outside the text, at certain points: Editorial comments on the text that are accessible outside the text at a clearly referenceable address (URI) are linked to the relevant passage. The corresponding text passage is enclosed by <ref type="editorialNote">, which receives a @target attribute in which the URL of the comment is specified.

<p>[...]
                  <ref type="editorialNote" target="[URL comment]">[text passage]</ref>
  [...]
</p>

d) outside the text, related to a specific text passage: If the editorial comment is to be linked selectively in the text without a specific text passage being linked to it, the <ref> element remains empty.

<p>[...]
                  <ref type="editorialNote" target="[URL comment]"/>
  [...]
</p>