Additions, deletions, and significant recoding should be noted, but not correction of minor typographical errors. It is recommended that revisions should be entered in reverse chronological order, with the most recent <change> first. The @resp attribute contains a pointer to an element containing info about the person/entity responsible for change. The <edition> element can be used to designate an MEI encoding that has been so substantively changed that it constitutes a new version that supersedes earlier versions.
The model of this element is based on the respective element of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
<elementSpec ident="change" module="MEI.header">
<desc xml:lang="en">Individual change within the revision description.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.bibl"/>
<memberOf key="att.datable"/>
</classes>
<constraintSpec ident="check_change" scheme="schematron">
<constraint>
<sch:rule context="mei:change">
<sch:assert test="@isodate or mei:date">The date of the change must be recorded in an
isodate attribute or date element.</sch:assert>
<sch:assert test="@resp or mei:respStmt[mei:name or mei:corpName or mei:persName]" role="warning">It is recommended that the agent responsible for the change be recorded
in a resp attribute or in a name, corpName, or persName element in the respStmt
element.</sch:assert>
</sch:rule>
</constraint>
</constraintSpec>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>Additions, deletions, and significant recoding should be noted, but not correction
of minor
typographical errors. It is recommended that revisions should be entered in reverse
chronological order, with the most recent <gi scheme="MEI">change</gi> first. The
<att>resp</att> attribute contains a pointer to an element containing info about the
person/entity responsible for change. The <gi scheme="MEI">edition</gi> element can be used
to designate an MEI encoding that has been so substantively changed that it constitutes
a
new version that supersedes earlier versions.</p>
<p>The model of this element is based on the respective element of the Encoded Archival
Description (EAD).</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>