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Coding Commentaries

Here at OCIMCO, we are struggling to find a satisfactory method of coding works of a derivative nature such as commentaries and translations. One method favours putting the information about the work the commentary etc., is based on in a <summary>, another in a <note>. We are still experimenting, but have come up with a possible solution to this by putting all the information in a <title> element with subelements such as another <title> for the original work the commentary was based on and <name> for the author of the original work. We are wondering if it is possible to indicate the priority of the works by having a type attribute value of, say, "primary", "secondary", etc., for the <title> and <author> elements? Please see below for a coded example:

                        <msItem>
                             <author>
                               <persName xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc" type="standard">Qūshjī, ʻAlī
                                   ibn Muḥammad, d. 1474 or 5</persName>
                               <persName xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc" type="alt">al-Qawshajī, ʻAlī
                                   ibn Muḥammad, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn</persName>
                               <persName xml:lang="ara" type="standard">
                                   <surname>بن محمد</surname>
                                   <forename>علي</forename>
                                   <addName type="laqab">علاء الدين</addName>
                                   <addName type="kunyah">أبو القاسم</addName>
                                   <addName type="nisbah">القوشجي</addName>
                               </persName>
                           </author>
                           <docAuthor>Qūshjī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad d. 1474.</docAuthor>
                           <title><foreign xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc">al-Sharḥ al-jadīd</foreign>, a
                               commentary on the <title xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc">Tajrīd
                                   al-ʿaqāʾid</title> of <name type="person"
                                   xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc">Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī</name>,
                               1201-1274.</title>
                           <title xml:lang="ara">الشرح الجديد شرح تجريد الاعتقاد لنصير الدين الطوسي</title>
                           <note/>
                           <listBibl>
                               <bibl>GAL I 509</bibl>
                               <bibl/>
                           </listBibl>
                           <textLang mainLang="ara">Arabic</textLang>
                       </msItem>