List of Leiden Conformance Requirements

The XML encodings laid out in the following sections must be applied consistently and completely throughout all transcribed texts in a given digital publication if it is to be considered “Leiden-conformant EpiDoc”. For fuller explanation, see Conformance (EpiDoc Compatibility).

Note that an XML fragment may be considered a valid EpiDoc file if it is properly handled (e.g., by wrapping an <ab> or <div> element around it and specifying that element as the document root).

Lines
Units of the text (fragments, columns, sections)
Transcription with no problems
Transcription with no uncertainty about the form of the character(s), but the editor prefers not to resolve them.
Transcription wherein the character would not be unambiguous outside its context
Transcription wherein vestiges of characters remain, but they cannot be recognized (extent certain or nearly so)
Letters completely lost (extent certain or not certain)
Letters completely lost (extent less certain due to variation in the size of surviving characters)
An entire line completely lost (extent certain or uncertain)
Possibility that letters have been completely lost
Letters read by a previous modern observer, but which cannot now be read
Transcription where a vacat is evident or suspected
Deletion and overstruck addition of text in antiquity
Letters joined (ligature)
Indication of the direction of script (e.g. right-to-left)
Identification and expansion of abbreviations understood by the editor
Identification of abbreviations not understood by the editor
Editorial supplement for characters wholly lost
Letters omitted because the stonecutter did not carry out the text to the end
Letters erroneously included in the text, which the editor suppresses
Letters erroneously omitted from the text, which the editor adds
Letters erroneously substituted or incorrectly executed in the text, which the editor corrects
Specifying available languages and scripts
Apparatus Criticus
Ancient and modern languages and scripts