An epic text will have this structure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<body>\n\t<div type="book" n="1" xml:id="la.1">\n\t<\/div>\n<\/body><\/pre>\n\n\n\nIn our collection, each book of an epic work is published in a separate document, so there will be a single main division within the body of the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, each book will be presented on screen in parallel with its translations, so in order not to load the whole book on a single screen, and to facilitate navigation for users, we need to divide the text into fragments of no more than 60vv. by means of internal
<div><\/code> , thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div type="book" n="1" xml:id="la.1">\n\t<head>Liber primus<\/head>\n\t<div xml:id="la.1.div.1">\n\t\t<head>1-45<\/head>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="1">Fraternas acies alternaque regna profanis<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="2">decertata odiis sontesque euoluere Thebas,<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="3">Pierius menti calor incidit, unde iubetis<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t… etc. …\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div xml:id="la.1.div.46">\n\t\t<head>46-113<\/head>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="46">Impia iam merita scrutatus lumina dextra<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="47">merserat aeterna damnatum nocte pudorem<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t… etc. …\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="88">Talia dicenti crudelis diua seueros<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t<l n="89">aduertit uultus. Inamoenum forte sedebat<\/l>\n\t\t\t\t… etc. …\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\t… etc. …\n<\/div><\/pre>\n\n\n\nAll the
<div><\/code> in which we divide our document must carry a<head><\/code> (heading<\/em>, \u201ctitle\u201d) which carries in the first place the corresponding header, so that the contents index of out text can be generated (cf. <head>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAn epic poem generally doesn\u2019t have canonical divisions within each book, but editors can create groups of verses, in the style of paragraphs, for blocks with a unity of content, which will always be contained within each internal
<div><\/code> . Each of these \u201cparagraphs\u201d will be tagged with<p><\/code> (paragraph<\/em>, cf. <p><\/a>). An internal<div><\/code> can contain a single or various paragraphs, depending on the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is very important to look at the
@xml:id<\/code> tags of the example which apply to each internal<div><\/code> of the text. Its value always begin with the language code (cf. xml:lang)<\/a>, and is then followed by the canonical numbering into which we have divided the text. Thus, the<div><\/code> that contains verses 1 to 46 of book I of the Thebais<\/em> will carry a@xml:id<\/code> with the value\"la.1.div.1\"<\/code>because it contains the division starting at verse 1 of book I of the Latin version of the text. The second internal<div><\/code> of the example carries an@xml:id<\/code> with the value\"la.1.div.46\"<\/code>, because it contains the division starting at verse 46 of book I of the Latin version of the text. And so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n