Quick meeting with Ray and Cara in which we discussed how best to enable the production of collations in TEI to proceed quickly. The best approach appears to be:

• Cara will use my Apparatus app to generate the TEI.
• She'll tweak Collate output where necessary before generating TEI.
• Then she'll use a new feature I'm going to add to my app, which will do this:
  1. Run through each <app> tag in the XML.
  2. For each <app> tag, go through each <rdg> tag.
  3. For each <rdg> tag, pop up a dialog box which shows the lemma and the reading.
  4. In the dialog box, show a checkbox which the user will check if the variant is substantive.
  5. At the end of the process, write the decisions back to the XML document in the form of type="substantive" attributes on the <rdg> tags.
• Next, she'll check the XML manually to make sure there are no errors.
• Once that's done, she'll set the xml:id attribute for the poem and save the file.

This will take me a little while to code, because I'll need to learn about DOM manipulation in Java, but it's all stuff I need to know about anyway.