holfordm

I envisage changes to works.xml being made gradually and manually, as they are noticed (together with associated changes to the manuscript records of course) - similarly with duplicates in persons.xml....

You mean the redirects would have to be set up manually? I was hoping it might be possible to set up redirects with appropriate markup in works.xml (something like `Merged...

option 1 would be fine were it not that the deprecated records would appear in the index. Is there any way of getting round this? (e.g. putting deprecated records in...

The desired behaviour here is that the empty element should generate the text '[sic]', in the same style as in generated for other sics (`[sic]`) I've used the empty element...

Reopening as the spacing is odd when a correction is involved - unwanted space after '[' no space after 'for'. E.g. https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_343, art. 4 Incipit: Litere [ sic forLinee] naturales...

Another variant is when `` encloses text, without being part of a `` element - I don't think this is currently displaying anything?

I suppose that existing ids don't need to be replaced? How important is consistency in their format? Future cataloguing may lead to changes in how parts and items are idenitified,...

In that case (and perhaps in others) the existing title could be moved to the `head` or `summary` element, and the existing `xmlid` could go with it. I don't think...

Codes in works.xml should be revised in line with codes in the individual manuscript files. @adunning

@adunning where are we with this do you think? We could set both "en" and "enm" to display in the filter as "English or Middle English"? similarly we could have...