To assist KSW with automating some of the name markup, I've been generating lists of distinct values for name variants, using this code:

xquery version "1.0";

declare namespace  xdb="http://exist-db.org/xquery/xmldb";
declare namespace util="http://exist-db.org/xquery/util";
declare namespace f="http://exist-db.org/f-functions";
declare namespace tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0";
(:declare namespace fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";:)

declare function f:getContents($id as xs:string) as element()*
{
	for $d in distinct-values(collection('/db/coldesp/correspondence/')//tei:name[not(@type)][@key = $id])
		return 
<name>{$d}</name>
};

<people>
{for $id in distinct-values(collection('/db/coldesp/bios/')//tei:person/@xml:id)
return 
<person xml:id="{$id}">
{f:getContents($id)}
</person>}
</people>

Throws up some interesting things that look like they might be typos, as well as many names that don't seem to have any mentions in the text. I'm investigating.