How should a msItem in master be encoded, if the intellectual content
described streches across more than one page (or folio) range. The
following example

<msItem n="3">
  <locus from="189r" to="191v">ff. 189r-191v</locus>
  <locus from="226r" to="229v">ff. 226r-229v</locus>
  <author>Alphonsus de Jaen</author>
  <title type="uniform">Epistula solitarii ad reges</title>
  <rubric>Jncipit epistula solitarii ad Reges (in upper margin)</rubric>
  <incipit>O serenissimmi reges vtinam veri reges in christo ... </incipit>
  <explicit>Qui rex est  regum et dominus dominancium in secula seculorum
  amen.</explicit>
  <note><p>On f. 229r: <q>Jncipit prologus libri celestis imperatoris ad
    reges</q></p>
    <p>On f. 229v: <q>Ad presentis quippe nunc iam materiam ... </q></p>
  </note>
</msItem>

doesn't validate, since msItem is defined as

<!ELEMENT msItem
        (locus?, (author | respStmt | title | rubric | summary |
        incipit | explicit | colophon | textLang | q | decoNote
        | bibl | listBibl | note | msItem)*) >

It seems to me that master would be more useful if this was redefined

<!ELEMENT msItem
        (locus*, (author | respStmt | title | rubric | summary |
        incipit | explicit | colophon | textLang | q | decoNote
        | bibl | listBibl | note | msItem)*) >

or is there an established other way of solving this problem?

Yours

Sigge

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