Choice - original, regularisation

[strill66]

We're planning a side-by-side semi-diplomatic transcription of our text with a facing modernisation. If we use to mark up both and the xml document, does this allow for them to be differentiated between for display?

[cmohge1]

Yes, you could nest original and modernised words within a <choice> tag containing <orig> and <reg> for original and regularised spellings, respectively.

E.g.

<choice>
<orig>voutsaf't</orig>
<reg>vouchsafed</reg>
</choice>

Creating a facing page diplo + modernisation would be done at the processing stage -- you would basically indicate in the stylesheet to only print <orig>s in the diplo, and <reg>s in the modernised text.