The {PASSAGE} component

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The {PASSAGE} component is how CTS can extract the correct unique passage(s) from the given work. This extraction is primarily handled in the refsDecl element in the TEI header (which will explored later in the wiki), but for now it will be briefly introduced. The refsDecl element defines the different levels of specificity in the text, which will mirror the actual structure of the text. As contrasting examples, Ximenez's edition of the Popol Wuj has paragraphs as its primary meaningful units of discourse, while Colop's poetic k'iche' edition has divisions such as "episode," "section," and "line." For Ximenez's edition, we only extract the paragraph, while Colop's edition would require additional elements within the refsDecl element to define each of these divisions.

To extract paragraph 45 of the K'iche' column of Ximenez's edition of the Popol Wuj, the URN will look as follows:

urn:cts:mayaLit:lit0001.pw0001.popolwuj-quc:45

To extract episode 2, section 10, line 15 of the Colop's poetic K'iche' edition, the URN will look as follows:

urn:cts:mayaLit:lit0001.pw0002.colop-pk:2.10.15*

*Note that we have made the work subcomponent of {WORK} a different value (e.g. pw0002) to distinguish between these editions.

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