Since a reading can be a multi-measure section, the <scoreDef> element is allowed so that a reading may have its own meta-data without incurring the overhead of child <section> elements. The <app> sub-element is permitted in order to allow nested sub-variants.
In no case should <rdg> contain elements that would not otherwise be permitted to occur within the parent of its own <app> ancestor. For example, when used as a descendent of <verse>, <rdg> should only contain those elements allowed within <verse>.
The model of this element is based on the rdg element of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
<elementSpec xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="add" ident="rdg" module="MEI.critapp"><gloss xml:lang="en">reading</gloss>
<desc xml:lang="en">Contains a single reading within a textual variation.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.crit"/>
<memberOf key="att.pointing"/>
<memberOf key="att.rdg.anl"/>
<memberOf key="att.rdg.ges"/>
<memberOf key="att.rdg.log"/>
<memberOf key="att.rdg.vis"/>
<memberOf key="att.targetEval"/>
</classes>
<content>
<zeroOrMore><choice><rng:text/>
<ref name="model.appLike"/>
<ref name="model.divLike"/>
<ref name="model.editLike"/>
<ref name="model.fLike"/>
<ref name="model.graphicPrimitiveLike"/>
<ref name="model.layerPart"/>
<ref name="model.milestoneLike.music"/>
<ref name="model.neumeComponentModifierLike"/>
<ref name="model.neumeModifierLike"/>
<ref name="model.neumePart"/>
<ref name="model.rdgPart"/>
<ref name="model.sectionPart"/>
<ref name="model.staffGrpLike"/>
<ref name="model.transcriptionLike"/>
<ref name="expansion"/></choice></zeroOrMore>
</content>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>Since a reading can be a multi-measure section, the <gi scheme="MEI">scoreDef</gi> element
is allowed so that a reading may have its own meta-data without incurring the overhead
of
child <gi scheme="MEI">section</gi> elements. The <gi scheme="MEI">app</gi> sub-element is
permitted in order to allow nested sub-variants.</p>
<p>In no case should <gi scheme="MEI">rdg</gi> contain elements that would not otherwise be
permitted to occur within the parent of its own <gi scheme="MEI">app</gi> ancestor. For
example, when used as a descendent of <gi scheme="MEI">verse</gi>, <gi scheme="MEI">rdg</gi>
should only contain those elements allowed within <gi scheme="MEI">verse</gi>.</p>
<p>The model of this element is based on the <ref target="https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-rdg.html">rdg</ref> element of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).</p>
</remarks></elementSpec>