> We work on 15th-17th century texts and they aren't a collection of
> independent texts, but they are works conceived by the author as
> unity. "Book" is one way (common to the age) of calling a division
> that today we usually call "part" or "section". The same prefatory
> matter of a single division is above all (most of time) a
> rhetorical expedient. For this reason, I have not used <group>.
Hmm ... I'm not sure I know enough about your texts to agree or
disagree, so I'll take your word for it. I realize, though, that I
never asked what is *in* the prefatory matter to a "book" (the
dedication -- is it a single line "Dedicated to the memory of Antonio
Zampolli", or a larger unit with internal structure? If it's just a
paragraph or so it may make sense to put it into an element that is a
member of the divtop class (<argument>, <byline>, <dateline>
<docAuthor>, <docDate>, <epigraph>, <head>, <opener>, <salute>, and
<signed>), or to create a new element for it and make that new
element a member of divtop.
> <TEI.2>
> <teiHeader> <!-- ... --> </teiHeader>
> <text>
> <body>
> <div1 n="1" type="preface"> <!-- ... --> </div1>
> <div1 n="1" type="book">
> <div2 n="1" type="dedication"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
> <div2 n="2" type="chapter"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
> <!-- ... -->
> </div1>
> <div1 n="2" type="book">
> <div2 n="1" type="dedication"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
> <div2 n="2" type="chapter"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
> <!-- ... -->
> </div1>
> </body>
> </text>
> </TEI.2>
I think this is a reasonable encoding, which would be slightly
improved if the first <div1> were inside a <front> before <body>
instead:
<TEI.2>
<teiHeader> <!-- ... --> </teiHeader>
<text>
<front>
<div1 n="1" type="preface"> <!-- ... --> </div1>
</front>
<body>
<div1 n="1" type="book">
<div2 n="1" type="dedication"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
<div2 n="2" type="chapter"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
<!-- ... -->
</div1>
<div1 n="2" type="book">
<div2 n="1" type="dedication"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
<div2 n="2" type="chapter"> <!-- ... --> </div2>
<!-- ... -->
</div1>
</body>
</text>
</TEI.2>
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