The sole purpose of the <body>
of a class 1 file is to contain a segmented transcription of a single version of a
single work from a scriptum. <body>
may take @in-progress
and must take @xml:lang
that the majority of the
text is in. If a change in language occurs in a descendant <div>
, ensure that its @xml:lang
value (explicity or by
inheritance) indicates the language that is used.
<body>
takes one or more
<div>
elements, each of
which govern either other <div>
elements, or text (or TEI elements).
The term leaf div refers to those <div>
s that contain text and therefore
no other <div>
s.
Within this treelike structure of <div>
s, the concatenation of @n
values, starting from the most ancestral
<div>
, provides the
flat ref, the reference system used by class 2 files to refer
to parts of TAN-T(EI) files.
One of the most important validation rules is the Leaf Div Uniqueness
Rule, which states that the flat ref for each leaf <div>
must be unique.
This rule applies only to leaf <div>
s and not to <div>
s in general, since on occasion a major textual unit
will be broken by another. For example, chapters 24 and 30 in the book of Proverbs
of the Septuagint are split and interleaved (24.1–22e [22a–e are verses not extant
in the Hebrew]; 30.1–14; 24.23–34; and 30.15–33).