Hi,
I just posted this message to the TEI-l but then I thought it might be a more 
suitable question for the manuscript group.
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Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone has thought through some best practices for assigning 
an xml:id to a transcription of a line of text in a manuscript.
I am using the <l> tag at the moment, until the new <ge:line> element is 
approved.
I am thinking of something like this
<l n="1" xml:id="Cn54.1f57rl5"> where this means, manuscript sigla Cn 54.1, 
folio 57 recto, line 5. Does that seem straighforward?
My other dilemma is, should I put n="5" because although it is the first line of 
my text, it is the fifth line on that particular page. And then do I restart the 
line numbering with each new page of my manuscript?
I will be using these transcriptions in Juxta, that generates a critical apparatus 
based on the line number, hence my wanting to start at line 1.
My concern is to provide a clear-cut way for scholars to be able to cite a 
particular line. On my website I will be providing separate diplomatic 
transcriptions of each manuscript source of my text (with editorial emendations 
and corrections provided in notes), and then an HTML page of an automatic 
collation generated by Juxta.
(their automatic collation is standalone at the moment, although they say it will 
be purely web-based from version 2.0 on)
Thanks!
Karen