The encoding standards that the community of digital humanities have established for the digital scholarly editions imply a series of consequences concerning both the philological model and the scientific community, favouring editions based on single witnesses (or on multiple witnesses treated as a chain of single witnesses) and creating a dangerous digital &ldquodivide,&rdquo Texts whit complex transmissions or editions whit sophisticated requirements need systems and tools fitter than XML-TEI: someone is proposing new ways. The case of Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum.