I agree with Messrs Mandeville-Gamble and Landis. It may be
because we're the wrong side of the pond, but no-one has told us at
the Bodleian not to use <co1>-<co9> for varying levels of
description. In fact it seems the whole raison d'etre of these
tags! When I first started using EAD it seemed one of its positive
advantages that you could nest component levels and I am surprised
that doing so seems to be regarded as un-ARUP (where do you get
these acronyms?). (Mutatis mutandis we use the tags in question in
the same way as the previous contributers on this topic.)
Best wishes to all
Sarah Flynn
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Sarah J A Flynn
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