Any scribal modifications encoded with elements, such as <add>, <del>, etc., which refer to a genState element, are regarded as the operations that need to be implemented to reach this state; that is, they precede this state.
When nested inside a <genDesc> element with @ordered set to "false", information regarding the chronological order of states may be provided using the @next, @prev, @follows and @precedes attributes.
The <date> can be used to identify when the current state was achieved.
<elementSpec ident="genState" module="MEI.genetic">
<desc xml:lang="en">Describes a distinctive state in the textual development of a work.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.bibl"/>
<memberOf key="att.datable"/>
<memberOf key="att.dataPointing"/>
<memberOf key="att.metadataPointing"/>
<memberOf key="att.pointing"/>
</classes>
<content>
</content>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>Any scribal modifications encoded with elements, such as <gi scheme="MEI">add</gi>, <gi scheme="MEI">del</gi>, etc., which refer to a genState element, are regarded as the
operations that need to be implemented to reach this state; that is, they precede
this
state.</p>
<p>When nested inside a <gi scheme="MEI">genDesc</gi> element with <att>ordered</att> set to
"false", information regarding the chronological order of states may be provided using
the
<att>next</att>, <att>prev</att>, <att>follows</att> and <att>precedes</att> attributes.</p>
<p>The <gi scheme="MEI">date</gi> can be used to identify when the current state was
achieved.</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>