From 3440d2ce791e912fb173743565af5d39cde224ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:22:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 01/13] Locate byte regions with expat rather than a
 hand-rolled byte walk
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lxml exposes no byte offsets, but the stdlib's expat binding does:
CurrentByteIndex reports where the current event's markup begins. Taking
region starts and ends from element events retires the tag, comment, CDATA,
processing-instruction and nesting walk that found them by hand — the module
drops from 189 lines to 137, and scanning sango.lift (4.8 MB) from 660 ms to
185 ms, since the byte loop it replaces ran in Python and expat runs in C.

_tag_end survives, and does the one thing offsets alone cannot settle. An
empty element's end event reports the offset just past the whole element,
where every other element's reports the "<" of its end tag; the two cases are
indistinguishable from the offset, so which one applies is read off the start
tag's "/" instead. The same quote-aware scan supplies the root's open-tag end.

Conservative refusals are unchanged, and now come from one place: expat
rejects the malformed and truncated markup the walk used to detect case by
case, and a DTD is refused as before, since entity expansion would make these
offsets describe bytes that are not in the file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/sil_lift/_scan.py | 227 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 89 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_scan.py b/src/sil_lift/_scan.py
index f630681..f712d50 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_scan.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_scan.py
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 The writer emits untouched entries verbatim from their original bytes, which
 requires knowing each top-level ``<entry>``'s (and ``<header>``'s) exact byte
-region in the source. lxml exposes no byte offsets, so this module walks the
-raw bytes with a small state machine that understands tags, quoted attribute
-values, comments, CDATA sections, and processing instructions.
+region in the source. lxml exposes no byte offsets, but the stdlib's expat
+binding does: ``CurrentByteIndex`` reports where the current event's markup
+begins, which is a region's start at the element's start event and — bar the
+empty-element wrinkle noted below — its end at the matching end event.
 
 "Region" rather than "span" throughout: LIFT has a ``<span>`` element for
 inline markup, modelled as :class:`~sil_lift.Span`, and the two would
@@ -13,18 +14,19 @@
 What it exists for is byte identity, not diagnostics — ``docs/en/fidelity.md``
 states the guarantee it underpins. Problem reporting needs only the line an
 element starts on and takes that from lxml's ``sourceline`` (see
-``_validate._line``); a region needs the end offset too, which no parser API
+``_validate._line``); a region needs the end offset too, which no tree API
 exposes.
 
 It is deliberately conservative: anything unexpected (DOCTYPE, malformed
-nesting, non-ASCII-compatible encoding — checked by the caller) returns
-``None`` and the writer falls back to canonical serialization, which keeps
-the semantic guarantee and waives only byte identity.
+markup, non-ASCII-compatible encoding — checked by the caller) returns ``None``
+and the writer falls back to canonical serialization, which keeps the semantic
+guarantee and waives only byte identity.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from xml.parsers import expat
 
 __all__ = ["ChildRegion", "ScanResult", "scan"]
 
@@ -44,146 +46,95 @@ class ScanResult:
     children: list[ChildRegion]  # document order; empty for a self-closing root
 
 
-def _skip_comment(data: bytes, i: int) -> int | None:
-    end = data.find(b"-->", i + 4)
-    return None if end < 0 else end + 3
+class _Unscannable(Exception):
+    """Raised inside a handler to abandon the scan; ``scan`` returns None."""
 
 
-def _skip_pi(data: bytes, i: int) -> int | None:
-    end = data.find(b"?>", i + 2)
-    return None if end < 0 else end + 2
+def _tag_end(data: bytes, start: int) -> int:
+    """Just past the ``>`` of the start tag beginning at ``start``.
 
-
-def _skip_cdata(data: bytes, i: int) -> int | None:
-    end = data.find(b"]]>", i + 9)
-    return None if end < 0 else end + 3
-
-
-def _skip_tag(data: bytes, i: int) -> tuple[int, bool] | None:
-    """From ``<`` of a start/end tag to just past ``>``; reports self-closing."""
-    n = len(data)
-    j = i + 1
+    An attribute value may hold a ``>``, so this tracks quoting rather than
+    searching for the delimiter. End tags take no attributes and so need no
+    such care.
+    """
     quote: int | None = None
-    while j < n:
-        c = data[j]
+    for index in range(start + 1, len(data)):
+        char = data[index]
         if quote is not None:
-            if c == quote:
+            if char == quote:
                 quote = None
-        elif c in (0x22, 0x27):  # " or '
-            quote = c
-        elif c == 0x3E:  # >
-            return j + 1, data[j - 1] == 0x2F  # preceded by /
-        j += 1
-    return None
-
-
-def _tag_name(data: bytes, i: int) -> str:
-    j = i + 1
-    n = len(data)
-    while j < n and data[j] not in b" \t\r\n/>":
-        j += 1
-    return data[i + 1 : j].decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
-
-
-def _skip_element(data: bytes, i: int) -> int | None:
-    """From ``<`` of a start tag to just past the matching end tag."""
-    step = _skip_tag(data, i)
-    if step is None:
-        return None
-    pos, self_closing = step
-    if self_closing:
-        return pos
-    depth = 1
-    n = len(data)
-    while depth > 0:
-        lt = data.find(b"<", pos)
-        if lt < 0:
-            return None
-        if data.startswith(b"<!--", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_comment(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"<![CDATA[", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_cdata(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"<?", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_pi(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"</", lt):
-            step = _skip_tag(data, lt)
-            if step is None:
-                return None
-            nxt = step[0]
-            depth -= 1
-        elif data.startswith(b"<!", lt):
-            return None  # DOCTYPE or other markup decl mid-document: bail out
-        else:
-            step = _skip_tag(data, lt)
-            if step is None:
-                return None
-            nxt, self_closing = step
-            if not self_closing:
-                depth += 1
-        if nxt is None:
-            return None
-        pos = nxt
-        if pos > n:
-            return None
-    return pos
+        elif char in (0x22, 0x27):  # " or '
+            quote = char
+        elif char == 0x3E:  # >
+            return index + 1
+    raise _Unscannable  # unterminated start tag: expat would have refused it too
 
 
 def scan(data: bytes) -> ScanResult | None:
     """Locate the root open tag and every root child's byte region, or None."""
-    n = len(data)
-    pos = 0
-    # Prolog: byte-order mark, XML declaration, comments, processing
-    # instructions — until the root start tag.
-    while True:
-        lt = data.find(b"<", pos)
-        if lt < 0:
-            return None
-        if data.startswith(b"<!--", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_comment(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"<?", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_pi(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"<!", lt):
-            return None  # DOCTYPE: no passthrough
-        else:
-            break
-        if nxt is None:
-            return None
-        pos = nxt
-    root_open_start = lt
-    step = _skip_tag(data, lt)
-    if step is None:
+    parser = expat.ParserCreate()
+    # A DTD is refused outright below, so its parameter entities are never
+    # fetched or expanded either.
+    parser.SetParamEntityParsing(expat.XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_NEVER)
+
+    depth = 0
+    # Only the root and its children have regions to report; deeper elements
+    # just move the depth counter, which is what keeps a nested <entry> from
+    # being mistaken for a root child.
+    open_tags: dict[int, tuple[str, int, int]] = {}
+    children: list[ChildRegion] = []
+    root: tuple[int, int] | None = None
+    root_self_closing = False
+
+    def refuse(*_args: object) -> None:
+        raise _Unscannable
+
+    def start_element(name: str, _attrs: dict[str, str]) -> None:
+        nonlocal depth, root
+        depth += 1
+        if depth > 2:
+            return
+        start = parser.CurrentByteIndex
+        open_tags[depth] = (name, start, _tag_end(data, start))
+        if depth == 1:
+            root = (start, open_tags[1][2])
+
+    def end_element(_name: str) -> None:
+        nonlocal depth, root_self_closing
+        if depth <= 2:
+            tag, start, open_end = open_tags[depth]
+            # An empty element's end event reports the offset just past the
+            # whole element; every other element's reports the "<" of its end
+            # tag. Which of the two this is was settled by the start tag, in
+            # the "/" before its ">" — not by the end event, whose two cases
+            # are not distinguishable from the offset alone.
+            self_closing = data[open_end - 2] == 0x2F  # /
+            if self_closing:
+                end = open_end
+            else:
+                end = data.find(b">", parser.CurrentByteIndex) + 1
+                if end <= 0:
+                    raise _Unscannable
+            if depth == 1:
+                root_self_closing = self_closing
+            else:
+                children.append(ChildRegion(tag=tag, start=start, end=end))
+        depth -= 1
+
+    # A DTD may define entities whose expansion the offsets above would not
+    # describe, so a document carrying one is not scanned at all.
+    parser.StartDoctypeDeclHandler = refuse
+    parser.StartElementHandler = start_element
+    parser.EndElementHandler = end_element
+    try:
+        parser.Parse(data, True)
+    except (_Unscannable, expat.ExpatError):
         return None
-    root_open_end, self_closing = step
-    result = ScanResult(
-        root_open_start=root_open_start,
-        root_open_end=root_open_end,
-        root_self_closing=self_closing,
-        children=[],
+    if root is None:
+        return None  # no root element: nothing to reuse bytes from
+    return ScanResult(
+        root_open_start=root[0],
+        root_open_end=root[1],
+        root_self_closing=root_self_closing,
+        children=children,
     )
-    if self_closing:
-        return result
-    pos = root_open_end
-    while True:
-        lt = data.find(b"<", pos)
-        if lt < 0:
-            return None  # never saw the root close tag
-        if data.startswith(b"<!--", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_comment(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"<![CDATA[", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_cdata(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"<?", lt):
-            nxt = _skip_pi(data, lt)
-        elif data.startswith(b"</", lt):
-            return result  # root close tag; the trailing bytes are copied as they are
-        elif data.startswith(b"<!", lt):
-            return None
-        else:
-            tag = _tag_name(data, lt)
-            end = _skip_element(data, lt)
-            if end is None or end > n:
-                return None
-            result.children.append(ChildRegion(tag=tag, start=lt, end=end))
-            nxt = end
-        if nxt is None:
-            return None
-        pos = nxt

From b6fe0aa95763f3089abda4416e6be2fabf89f270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:23:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 02/13] Bisect for an error's entry, and count form languages
 with Counter

Both replace a hand-rolled scan with the standard-library operation it spells
out.

_nearest_entry is called once per schema error and walked the entry table
looking for the last entry starting at or before the error's line. The table
is built in document order, so it is sorted and bisect_right finds that entry
directly; a document failing validation on every entry no longer costs entries
x errors. Filtering the lineless entries out once, before the loop, is also
what gives the bisected list a total order to search.

duplicate-form-lang asked langs.count(lang) per language of a multitext,
rescanning the list once for every form in it. Counter answers the same
question in one pass, and _writer already imports it for the same reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/sil_lift/_validate.py | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
index ec17898..dd9bdfe 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import unicodedata
+from bisect import bisect_right
+from collections import Counter
 from dataclasses import dataclass, fields, is_dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Literal
@@ -201,9 +203,12 @@ def _schema_problems(
             )
         el.set("href", "masked:uri")  # see module docstring: anyURI is ours to report
     if not schema.validate(root.getroottree()):
+        # Entries are recorded in document order, so this is already sorted by
+        # line — which is what lets _nearest_entry bisect it.
+        addressable = [(at, id_, guid) for at, id_, guid in entry_lines if at is not None]
         for error in schema.error_log:
             line = error.line if error.line and error.line > 0 else None
-            entry_id, guid = _nearest_entry(entry_lines, line)
+            entry_id, guid = _nearest_entry(addressable, line)
             problems.append(
                 Problem(
                     "error",
@@ -219,18 +224,21 @@ def _schema_problems(
 
 
 def _nearest_entry(
-    entry_lines: list[tuple[int | None, str | None, str | None]], line: int | None
+    entry_lines: list[tuple[int, str | None, str | None]], line: int | None
 ) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
+    """Which entry a schema error's line falls in: the last one starting at or
+    before it, if any.
+
+    Bisected rather than walked because it is called once per error: a document
+    that fails validation on every entry would otherwise cost entries x errors.
+    """
     if line is None:
         return None, None
-    best: tuple[str | None, str | None] = (None, None)
-    for entry_line, entry_id, guid in entry_lines:
-        if entry_line is None:
-            continue  # parsed entries always carry a sourceline; stay defensive
-        if entry_line > line:
-            break
-        best = (entry_id, guid)
-    return best
+    index = bisect_right(entry_lines, line, key=lambda entry: entry[0])
+    if index == 0:
+        return None, None  # the error precedes the first entry
+    _, entry_id, guid = entry_lines[index - 1]
+    return entry_id, guid
 
 
 # --- semantic layer ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -425,8 +433,8 @@ def _main_doc_guids() -> Iterator[tuple[str, str, str | None, int | None]]:
     # every Multitext under the entry, not just the top-level ones.
     for index, entry in enumerate(lexicon.entries):
         for label, multitext in _iter_multitexts(entry):
-            langs = [f.lang for f in multitext.forms if f.lang is not None]
-            for lang in sorted({lang for lang in langs if langs.count(lang) > 1}):
+            langs = Counter(f.lang for f in multitext.forms if f.lang is not None)
+            for lang in sorted(lang for lang, count in langs.items() if count > 1):
                 yield Problem(
                     "warning",
                     "duplicate-form-lang",

From 1ccae8945d75b58ed748653a6236dd20f3a02477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:24:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 03/13] Walk the dataclass tree once, for whichever class the
 caller wants

_iter_multitexts, _iter_traits and _iter_grammatical_infos were the same
recursion over dataclasses.fields with the isinstance target swapped, so they
become one _iter_instances(obj, cls) and each caller names the class it wants.
Why each of the three reaches as far as it does is now stated in one place
rather than argued separately in each copy.

The field label the multitext check reports was only ever produced by one of
the three, and is now carried through the list branch as well: a match found
inside a list field is labelled with that field rather than left unlabelled.

The unified walk descends into a match instead of returning at it. That
descent is what finds a Multitext inside a Multitext's own annotations, which
the multitext copy already relied on; nothing in the model nests a Trait or a
GrammaticalInfo inside another, so the other two callers see the same
instances in the same order as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/sil_lift/_validate.py | 90 +++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
index dd9bdfe..10dedda 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 from collections import Counter
 from dataclasses import dataclass, fields, is_dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Literal
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Literal, TypeVar
 
 from lxml import etree
 
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
 
 __all__ = ["Problem", "iter_problems", "validate_file"]
 
+_T = TypeVar("_T")
+
 _SCHEMAS_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "schemas"
 _PARSER = etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False, no_network=True)
 
@@ -252,65 +254,41 @@ def _iter_senses(entry: Entry) -> Iterator[Sense]:
         stack.extend(sense.subsenses)
 
 
-def _iter_multitexts(obj: object) -> Iterator[tuple[str, Multitext]]:
-    """Every ``Multitext`` reachable from ``obj``, generic over the model shape.
-
-    Mirrors the RNG's Schematron ``multitext-content`` rule, which fires on
-    every ``<form>``-bearing element in the grammar — including forms nested
-    inside annotation content (``Annotation.content`` is itself a Multitext,
-    reachable from almost any node via ``.annotations``). Walking the
-    dataclass tree instead of hand-listing fields keeps this in sync as the
-    model grows.
-    """
-    if isinstance(obj, list):
-        for item in obj:
-            yield from _iter_multitexts(item)
-        return
-    if not is_dataclass(obj) or isinstance(obj, type):
-        return
-    for f in fields(obj):
-        value = getattr(obj, f.name)
-        if isinstance(value, Multitext):
-            yield f.name.replace("_", "-"), value
-        yield from _iter_multitexts(value)
-
-
-def _iter_traits(obj: object) -> Iterator[Trait]:
-    """Every ``Trait`` reachable from ``obj``, generic over the model shape.
-
-    Traits are not just entry/sense-direct: real FLEx exports nest them inside
-    ``<relation>`` (``is-primary``, ``complex-form-type``), ``<variant>``
-    (``morph-type``), ``<pronunciation>``, and other extensible elements —
-    walking the dataclass tree (mirrors ``_iter_multitexts``) catches all of
-    them instead of only the two levels a hand-written traversal would name.
+def _iter_instances(obj: object, cls: type[_T], label: str = "") -> Iterator[tuple[str, _T]]:
+    """Every instance of ``cls`` reachable from ``obj``, with the field name it
+    was found under (dashed, as the XML spells it).
+
+    Walking the dataclass tree rather than hand-listing fields is what keeps
+    these checks in sync as the model grows, and each of its three callers
+    needs a reach a hand-written traversal would not have:
+
+    - ``Multitext`` mirrors the RNG's Schematron ``multitext-content`` rule,
+      which fires on every ``<form>``-bearing element in the grammar —
+      including forms nested inside annotation content, since
+      ``Annotation.content`` is itself a Multitext and is reachable from almost
+      any node via ``.annotations``.
+    - ``Trait`` is not just entry/sense-direct: real FLEx exports nest traits
+      inside ``<relation>`` (``is-primary``, ``complex-form-type``),
+      ``<variant>`` (``morph-type``), ``<pronunciation>``, and other
+      extensible elements.
+    - ``GrammaticalInfo`` sits on senses, reversals, and reversal ``main``
+      chains alike.
+
+    A match is descended into as well as yielded, which is what finds a
+    Multitext inside a Multitext's own annotations. Nothing in the model nests
+    a Trait or a GrammaticalInfo inside another, so for those two the descent
+    finds nothing and costs only the walk.
     """
-    if isinstance(obj, Trait):
-        yield obj
-        return
-    if isinstance(obj, list):
-        for item in obj:
-            yield from _iter_traits(item)
-        return
-    if not is_dataclass(obj) or isinstance(obj, type):
-        return
-    for f in fields(obj):
-        yield from _iter_traits(getattr(obj, f.name))
-
-
-def _iter_grammatical_infos(obj: object) -> Iterator[GrammaticalInfo]:
-    """Every ``GrammaticalInfo`` reachable from ``obj`` (sense, reversal, and
-    reversal ``main`` chains all carry one)."""
-    if isinstance(obj, GrammaticalInfo):
-        yield obj
-        return
+    if isinstance(obj, cls):
+        yield label, obj
     if isinstance(obj, list):
         for item in obj:
-            yield from _iter_grammatical_infos(item)
+            yield from _iter_instances(item, cls, label)
         return
     if not is_dataclass(obj) or isinstance(obj, type):
         return
     for f in fields(obj):
-        yield from _iter_grammatical_infos(getattr(obj, f.name))
+        yield from _iter_instances(getattr(obj, f.name), cls, f.name.replace("_", "-"))
 
 
 def _semantic_problems(
@@ -432,7 +410,7 @@ def _main_doc_guids() -> Iterator[tuple[str, str, str | None, int | None]]:
     # Duplicate form languages (the RNG's Schematron rule; lxml ignores it) —
     # every Multitext under the entry, not just the top-level ones.
     for index, entry in enumerate(lexicon.entries):
-        for label, multitext in _iter_multitexts(entry):
+        for label, multitext in _iter_instances(entry, Multitext):
             langs = Counter(f.lang for f in multitext.forms if f.lang is not None)
             for lang in sorted(lang for lang, count in langs.items() if count > 1):
                 yield Problem(
@@ -587,10 +565,10 @@ def range_named(name: str) -> str | None:
     for index, entry in enumerate(lexicon.entries):
         checks: list[tuple[str, str, str]] = []  # (label, range id, value)
         if grammatical_range is not None:
-            for info in _iter_grammatical_infos(entry):
+            for _, info in _iter_instances(entry, GrammaticalInfo):
                 if info.value:
                     checks.append(("grammatical-info", grammatical_range, info.value))
-        for trait in _iter_traits(entry):
+        for _, trait in _iter_instances(entry, Trait):
             # Resolved before the value guard: a trait name that reaches its range only
             # by normalizing is worth reporting even without a value.
             range_id = range_named(trait.name)

From 3fce13b70fdaffa3ae37050c6e5f85d9c19eb70c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:27:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 04/13] Add Entry.all_senses(), and walk subsenses through it
 everywhere
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Five places carried their own depth-first walk over sense.subsenses: two in
the CLI, two on the model, one in validation. They become one method, which
answers a question callers outside this package have as much as the ones
inside it — Entry.senses holds only the top level, so anything asking about
"the entry's senses" has to recurse.

The CLI's leaf-sense pass is a filter over it now: with the walk in document
order, the senses with no subsenses are exactly the rows export wants, in the
order it wants them.

media_refs() and the missing_media() list derived from it therefore report
sibling senses in document order. The stack walk they used popped from the
end, so sibling illustrations came out reversed within an entry — visible in
check-media output, and in nothing that depended on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/sil_lift/_cli.py      | 28 +++++++---------------------
 src/sil_lift/_model.py    | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 src/sil_lift/_validate.py | 15 +++------------
 tests/test_reader.py      |  9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_cli.py b/src/sil_lift/_cli.py
index 6e09d58..1dcd3c1 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_cli.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_cli.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 from ._validate import iter_problems
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from collections.abc import Iterator, Sequence
+    from collections.abc import Sequence
     from typing import BinaryIO, TextIO
 
     from ._model import Entry, Sense
@@ -95,16 +95,6 @@ def _cmd_validate(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
     return 1 if failed else 0
 
 
-def _iter_senses(entry: Entry) -> list[Sense]:
-    senses: list[Sense] = []
-    stack = list(entry.senses)
-    while stack:
-        sense = stack.pop()
-        senses.append(sense)
-        stack.extend(sense.subsenses)
-    return senses
-
-
 def _cmd_stats(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
     from ._zip import lift_source
 
@@ -121,7 +111,7 @@ def _cmd_stats(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
                 pronunciations.extend(variant.pronunciations)
             for pronunciation in pronunciations:
                 media += len(pronunciation.media)
-            for sense in _iter_senses(entry):
+            for sense in entry.all_senses():
                 senses += 1
                 examples += len(sense.examples)
                 media += len(sense.illustrations)
@@ -195,18 +185,14 @@ def _cmd_check_media(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
     return 1 if missing else 0
 
 
-def _iter_leaf_senses(senses: Sequence[Sense]) -> Iterator[Sense]:
-    """Depth-first leaf senses, document order.
+def _leaf_senses(entry: Entry) -> list[Sense]:
+    """The entry's senses that carry content, document order.
 
     A sense with subsenses is a LIFT grouping node (e.g. numbered "1a"/"1b"
     under a bare "1") whose own gloss/definition are conventionally empty —
     its subsenses carry the content and get the rows instead.
     """
-    for sense in senses:
-        if sense.subsenses:
-            yield from _iter_leaf_senses(sense.subsenses)
-        else:
-            yield sense
+    return [sense for sense in entry.all_senses() if not sense.subsenses]
 
 
 def _text_or_empty(text: Text | None) -> str:
@@ -265,7 +251,7 @@ def _cmd_export(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
             detected: set[str] = set()
             with open_reader(lift_path) as reader:
                 for entry in reader:
-                    for sense in _iter_leaf_senses(entry.senses):
+                    for sense in _leaf_senses(entry):
                         detected.update(g.lang for g in sense.glosses if g.lang is not None)
                         detected.update(sense.definition.keys())
             langs = sorted(detected)
@@ -294,7 +280,7 @@ def _cmd_export(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
                 for entry in reader:
                     forms = entry.lexical_unit.forms
                     lexeme = str(forms[0].text) if forms else ""
-                    for sense in _iter_leaf_senses(entry.senses):
+                    for sense in _leaf_senses(entry):
                         pos = sense.grammatical_info.value if sense.grammatical_info else ""
                         row = [entry.id or "", entry.guid or "", sense.id or "", lexeme, pos]
                         for lang in langs:
diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_model.py b/src/sil_lift/_model.py
index 0bdf4af..94b29b7 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_model.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_model.py
@@ -224,17 +224,31 @@ class Entry(_Extensible):
     relations: list[Relation] = field(default_factory=list)
     etymologies: list[Etymology] = field(default_factory=list)
 
+    def all_senses(self) -> list[Sense]:
+        """Every sense and subsense, depth-first in document order.
+
+        LIFT nests senses arbitrarily deep, so anything asking a question of
+        "the entry's senses" — how many there are, what languages they gloss,
+        what media they reference — means this list rather than
+        :attr:`senses`, which holds only the top level.
+        """
+        return list(_walk_senses(self.senses))
+
     def gloss_langs(self) -> set[str]:
         """Every language that has a gloss in any sense or subsense."""
         langs: set[str] = set()
-        stack = list(self.senses)
-        while stack:
-            sense = stack.pop()
+        for sense in self.all_senses():
             langs.update(g.lang for g in sense.glosses if g.lang is not None)
-            stack.extend(sense.subsenses)
         return langs
 
 
+def _walk_senses(senses: list[Sense]) -> Iterator[Sense]:
+    """Depth-first pre-order over a sense list and every subsense under it."""
+    for sense in senses:
+        yield sense
+        yield from _walk_senses(sense.subsenses)
+
+
 @dataclass(slots=True)
 class MediaRef:
     """One media reference in the document, with its owner's identity."""
@@ -946,14 +960,11 @@ def media_refs(self) -> Iterator[MediaRef]:
             for pronunciation in pronunciations:
                 for media in pronunciation.media:
                     yield MediaRef(media.href, "media", entry.id, entry.guid)
-            stack = list(entry.senses)
-            while stack:
-                sense = stack.pop()
+            for sense in entry.all_senses():
                 for illustration in sense.illustrations:
                     yield MediaRef(
                         illustration.href, "illustration", entry.id, entry.guid, sense.id
                     )
-                stack.extend(sense.subsenses)
 
     def missing_media(self) -> list[MediaRef]:
         """Media references whose files don't exist in the LIFT folder layout.
diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
index 10dedda..d0b4fd1 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@
     from collections.abc import Collection, Iterator
 
     from ._header import Range
-    from ._model import Entry, Sense
 
 __all__ = ["Problem", "iter_problems", "validate_file"]
 
@@ -246,14 +245,6 @@ def _nearest_entry(
 # --- semantic layer ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-def _iter_senses(entry: Entry) -> Iterator[Sense]:
-    stack = list(entry.senses)
-    while stack:
-        sense = stack.pop()
-        yield sense
-        stack.extend(sense.subsenses)
-
-
 def _iter_instances(obj: object, cls: type[_T], label: str = "") -> Iterator[tuple[str, _T]]:
     """Every instance of ``cls`` reachable from ``obj``, with the field name it
     was found under (dashed, as the XML spells it).
@@ -315,7 +306,7 @@ def at(index: int) -> int | None:
                     entry_id=entry.id,
                     line=at(index),
                 )
-            for sense in _iter_senses(entry):
+            for sense in entry.all_senses():
                 if sense.id is None:
                     yield Problem(
                         "error",
@@ -385,7 +376,7 @@ def _main_doc_guids() -> Iterator[tuple[str, str, str | None, int | None]]:
     targets: set[str] = set()
     for entry in lexicon.entries:
         targets.update(t for t in (entry.id, entry.guid) if t)
-        for sense in _iter_senses(entry):
+        for sense in entry.all_senses():
             if sense.id:
                 targets.add(sense.id)
     for index, entry in enumerate(lexicon.entries):
@@ -393,7 +384,7 @@ def _main_doc_guids() -> Iterator[tuple[str, str, str | None, int | None]]:
         refs.extend(v.ref for v in entry.variants if v.ref)
         for variant in entry.variants:
             refs.extend(r.ref for r in variant.relations)
-        for sense in _iter_senses(entry):
+        for sense in entry.all_senses():
             refs.extend(r.ref for r in sense.relations)
         for ref in refs:
             if ref and ref not in targets:
diff --git a/tests/test_reader.py b/tests/test_reader.py
index 4a5e266..ce97582 100644
--- a/tests/test_reader.py
+++ b/tests/test_reader.py
@@ -101,6 +101,15 @@ def test_subsenses_spot_check() -> None:
     assert str(sense_2.gloss("en") or "") == "master"
 
 
+def test_all_senses_is_depth_first_document_order() -> None:
+    lexicon = sil_lift.load(CORPUS_DIR / "spec-examples" / "0.13" / "subsenses.lift")
+    entry = lexicon.find(id="opon")
+    assert entry is not None
+    # A subsense follows its parent, not the parent's siblings.
+    assert [s.id for s in entry.all_senses()] == ["opon_1", "opon_1a", "opon_1b", "opon_2"]
+    assert [s.id for s in entry.senses] == ["opon_1", "opon_2"]
+
+
 def test_reversal_main_chain() -> None:
     lexicon = sil_lift.load(CORPUS_DIR / "spec-examples" / "0.13" / "reversals-hierarchy.lift")
     (entry,) = lexicon.entries

From 6f98cefd63095eebdfd1148068783a88cd0ae03b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:31:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 05/13] Make Multitext an actual Mapping instead of imitating
 one
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The class hand-wrote get, __contains__, keys, values and items on top of
__getitem__ / __iter__ / __len__ — which is the set collections.abc.Mapping
derives from those three. Inheriting it drops them, and makes
isinstance(mt, Mapping) true for consumers that ask.

keys(), values() and items() therefore return views rather than lists. A view
is what a Mapping promises, and typing the class as one while returning lists
would have been three suppressed Liskov violations; set operations on keys()
work now, and a caller wanting a list can say so. __iter__ and __len__ read
forms directly, since the views are built on them.

__len__ counts languages rather than forms. It counted every form including a
lang=None one, which keys() has always excluded, so len(mt) could exceed
len(mt.keys()) on schema-invalid input; as a Mapping that would leave
len(mt) != len(list(mt)). __bool__ still answers "is there anything to
serialize", which residue and a lang-less form each defeat on their own, so it
stays independent of len().

The two mutators stay as they are. MutableMapping is not inherited: clear and
popitem have no clear meaning for a form list that can hold forms no key
reaches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md |  3 ++-
 src/sil_lift/_text.py             | 41 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 tests/test_reader.py              |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md b/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
index c7fe813..37108bd 100644
--- a/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
+++ b/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lex = sil_lift.load("dictionary.lift")
 
 ## The model
 
-Every LIFT element is a typed dataclass: `Entry`, `Sense`, `Example`, `Pronunciation`, `Variant`, `Relation`, `Etymology`, `Reversal`, and so on. Multilingual text is a `Multitext`, which behaves like a mapping from language code to `Text`:
+Every LIFT element is a typed dataclass: `Entry`, `Sense`, `Example`, `Pronunciation`, `Variant`, `Relation`, `Etymology`, `Reversal`, and so on. Multilingual text is a `Multitext`, which is a `Mapping` from language code to `Text`:
 
 ```python
 entry = lex.find(id="abat")
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ entry = lex.find(id="abat")
 str(entry.lexical_unit["seh"])          # "abat"
 entry.lexical_unit["en"] = "grove"      # plain strings are coerced
 "en" in entry.citation                  # False
+entry.lexical_unit.keys()               # the languages present, in file order
 ```
 
 `Text` is structured — an ordered list of `str` and `Span` fragments — because `<text>` can contain nested `<span>` markup. `str(text)` flattens to plain text; the fragments keep the markup for round-tripping.
diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_text.py b/src/sil_lift/_text.py
index beb8849..958ffa1 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_text.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_text.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from collections.abc import Mapping
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from datetime import date, datetime
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
@@ -84,13 +85,19 @@ class Form:
 
 
 @dataclass(slots=True, repr=False)
-class Multitext:
+class Multitext(Mapping[str, Text]):
     """An insertion-ordered collection of forms, one per language.
 
-    Behaves like a ``Mapping[str, Text]`` keyed by language (``mt["en"]``),
-    with assignment coercing plain strings (``mt["en"] = "dog"``). The
-    underlying ``forms`` list is the full truth — forms with a ``None`` lang
-    (schema-invalid input) are reachable there but not via mapping keys.
+    A ``Mapping[str, Text]`` keyed by language — ``mt["en"]``, ``"en" in mt``,
+    ``mt.get(...)``, ``mt.keys()`` and the other views — plus the two mutators
+    LIFT editing needs: assignment coercing plain strings (``mt["en"] = "dog"``)
+    and deletion. The rest of ``MutableMapping`` is deliberately not inherited;
+    ``clear`` and ``popitem`` have no clear meaning for a form list that can
+    also hold forms no key reaches.
+
+    The ``forms`` list is the full truth: a form with a ``None`` lang
+    (schema-invalid input) is reachable there, but not by key, and not counted
+    by ``len()``.
     """
 
     forms: list[Form] = field(default_factory=list)
@@ -122,31 +129,19 @@ def __delitem__(self, lang: str) -> None:
             raise KeyError(lang)
         self.forms.remove(form)
 
-    def get(self, lang: str, default: Text | None = None) -> Text | None:
-        form = self._find(lang)
-        return default if form is None else form.text
-
-    def __contains__(self, lang: object) -> bool:
-        return isinstance(lang, str) and self._find(lang) is not None
-
+    # Both read forms directly rather than through keys(): the inherited views
+    # are built on these two, so consulting a view here would not terminate.
     def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        return iter(self.keys())
+        return (form.lang for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None)
 
     def __len__(self) -> int:
-        return len(self.forms)
+        return sum(1 for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None)
 
     def __bool__(self) -> bool:
+        # Not derived from len(): emptiness here means "nothing to serialize",
+        # which residue and a lang-less form each defeat on their own.
         return bool(self.forms) or bool(self.extra)
 
-    def keys(self) -> list[str]:
-        return [form.lang for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None]
-
-    def values(self) -> list[Text]:
-        return [form.text for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None]
-
-    def items(self) -> list[tuple[str, Text]]:
-        return [(form.lang, form.text) for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None]
-
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         inner = ", ".join(f"{form.lang!r}: {str(form.text)!r}" for form in self.forms)
         return f"Multitext({{{inner}}})"
diff --git a/tests/test_reader.py b/tests/test_reader.py
index ce97582..08fab8d 100644
--- a/tests/test_reader.py
+++ b/tests/test_reader.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ def test_all_flex_fields_spot_check() -> None:
     assert span.class_ == "Hyperlink"
     (illustration,) = sense.illustrations
     assert illustration.href == "Desert.jpg"
-    assert illustration.label.keys() == ["th", "en", "fr"]
+    assert list(illustration.label.keys()) == ["th", "en", "fr"]
 
     other = lexicon.find(id="คาม ๒_dc4106ac-13fd-4ae0-a32b-b737f413d515")
     assert other is not None

From 4f13be05fd0c212d8c9b4dbc9d47005df51d04dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:51:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 06/13] Describe the Multitext mapping surface and all_senses()
 in the changelog

Both belong in the object-model entry: what a multilingual field supports is
most of what a caller does with this model, and that Entry.senses holds only
the top level is the surprise all_senses() exists to answer.

The media helpers' entry gains the two facts a caller has to know to read
their output: every subsense is covered, and references come out in document
order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 31560f2..01e2ced 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,9 +24,14 @@ releases may contain breaking changes.
 
 - Project scaffolding: package skeleton, vendored LIFT 0.13 RELAX NG schema,
   test corpus with provenance, corpus-prep and large-file-generator tooling.
-- Full object model: all 35 LIFT 0.13 elements as typed dataclasses;
-  `sil_lift.load()` / `Lexicon.load()` full-document reader that keeps LIFT
-  residue per node in `Extras`; LIFT-version guard.
+- Full object model: all 35 LIFT 0.13 elements as typed dataclasses.
+  Multilingual fields are `Multitext`, a `Mapping` from language code to
+  `Text` that coerces plain strings on assignment; `len()` and the key views
+  count languages, while the `forms` list stays the full truth for the
+  lang-less forms schema-invalid input can carry. `Entry.all_senses()` walks
+  every subsense depth-first in document order, which `Entry.senses` (top
+  level only) does not. `sil_lift.load()` / `Lexicon.load()` full-document
+  reader that keeps LIFT residue per node in `Extras`; LIFT-version guard.
 - `Lexicon.save()` writer with byte-fidelity passthrough — unchanged
   documents and untouched entries are written byte-identically; touched entries
   re-serialize canonically with all out-of-schema content preserved. Fidelity
@@ -53,12 +58,12 @@ releases may contain breaking changes.
   same fidelity guarantees), automatic companion discovery/tracking on load
   (`Lexicon.ranges_files`, matching companion filenames across case and
   Unicode normalization differences), `save()` writes companions together,
-  `all_ranges()` merged view, `media_refs()` / `missing_media()` helpers,
-  build-from-scratch helpers `Lexicon.add_ranges_file()` /
-  `RangesFile.add_range()` / `Range.add_element()` (`save()` writes and
-  header-references a new companion beside the `.lift`); vendored
-  `schemas/lift-ranges-0.13.rng` — the first schema for standalone ranges
-  documents.
+  `all_ranges()` merged view, `media_refs()` / `missing_media()` helpers
+  (every subsense, in document order), build-from-scratch helpers
+  `Lexicon.add_ranges_file()` / `RangesFile.add_range()` /
+  `Range.add_element()` (`save()` writes and header-references a new
+  companion beside the `.lift`); vendored `schemas/lift-ranges-0.13.rng` —
+  the first schema for standalone ranges documents.
 - Zipped LIFT packages: `sil_lift.load()` reads a `.zip` (both the flat and
   folder-wrapped layouts, junk entries like `__MACOSX` ignored),
   `Lexicon.save_zip()` writes one (carrying media, `WritingSystems/`, and other

From 77563c49579393778aa0cfccc374ecacaed34c7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:22:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 07/13] Key the Multitext mapping by language, not by form
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

A language repeated across forms was yielded once per form, so the inherited
views walked it twice and resolved both to the first form's text: values()
reported that text twice and never the second form's, and len() counted 2
where dict() held 1 key. A repeated language is exactly the schema-invalid
input validation reports as duplicate-form-lang, so it is real FLEx and WeSay
output rather than a hypothetical.

__iter__ now yields each language once — the one __getitem__ answers with —
and __len__ counts those, so len(mt) == len(dict(mt)) whatever the forms hold.
Nothing is hidden: forms still holds every form, which is where
duplicate-form-lang reads from and where a lang-less form was already the
docstring's example of content no mapping can represent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md          | 14 ++++++++------
 src/sil_lift/_text.py | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 tests/test_reader.py  | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 01e2ced..4a40801 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,12 +26,14 @@ releases may contain breaking changes.
   test corpus with provenance, corpus-prep and large-file-generator tooling.
 - Full object model: all 35 LIFT 0.13 elements as typed dataclasses.
   Multilingual fields are `Multitext`, a `Mapping` from language code to
-  `Text` that coerces plain strings on assignment; `len()` and the key views
-  count languages, while the `forms` list stays the full truth for the
-  lang-less forms schema-invalid input can carry. `Entry.all_senses()` walks
-  every subsense depth-first in document order, which `Entry.senses` (top
-  level only) does not. `sil_lift.load()` / `Lexicon.load()` full-document
-  reader that keeps LIFT residue per node in `Extras`; LIFT-version guard.
+  `Text` that coerces plain strings on assignment; `len()` and the views
+  count languages, while the `forms` list stays the full truth for what no
+  mapping can represent — a form with no lang, and a second form for a
+  language already present (which validation reports as
+  `duplicate-form-lang`). `Entry.all_senses()` walks every subsense
+  depth-first in document order, which `Entry.senses` (top level only) does
+  not. `sil_lift.load()` / `Lexicon.load()` full-document reader that keeps
+  LIFT residue per node in `Extras`; LIFT-version guard.
 - `Lexicon.save()` writer with byte-fidelity passthrough — unchanged
   documents and untouched entries are written byte-identically; touched entries
   re-serialize canonically with all out-of-schema content preserved. Fidelity
diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_text.py b/src/sil_lift/_text.py
index 958ffa1..40ae353 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_text.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_text.py
@@ -95,9 +95,12 @@ class Multitext(Mapping[str, Text]):
     ``clear`` and ``popitem`` have no clear meaning for a form list that can
     also hold forms no key reaches.
 
-    The ``forms`` list is the full truth: a form with a ``None`` lang
-    (schema-invalid input) is reachable there, but not by key, and not counted
-    by ``len()``.
+    The ``forms`` list is the full truth, and holds what no mapping can
+    represent: a form with a ``None`` lang, and a second form for a language
+    already present. Both are schema-invalid input that real exporters produce
+    — a repeated language is what validation reports as
+    ``duplicate-form-lang``, off ``forms`` rather than off the mapping — and
+    neither is reachable by key or counted by ``len()``.
     """
 
     forms: list[Form] = field(default_factory=list)
@@ -132,10 +135,18 @@ def __delitem__(self, lang: str) -> None:
     # Both read forms directly rather than through keys(): the inherited views
     # are built on these two, so consulting a view here would not terminate.
     def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        return (form.lang for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None)
+        # A language repeated across forms is one key, the one __getitem__
+        # answers with. Yielding it twice would make the inherited views
+        # report the first form's text once per duplicate, and leave len()
+        # disagreeing with dict(self).
+        seen: set[str] = set()
+        for form in self.forms:
+            if form.lang is not None and form.lang not in seen:
+                seen.add(form.lang)
+                yield form.lang
 
     def __len__(self) -> int:
-        return sum(1 for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None)
+        return sum(1 for _ in self)
 
     def __bool__(self) -> bool:
         # Not derived from len(): emptiness here means "nothing to serialize",
diff --git a/tests/test_reader.py b/tests/test_reader.py
index 08fab8d..6b25de1 100644
--- a/tests/test_reader.py
+++ b/tests/test_reader.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 import sil_lift
-from sil_lift import LiftParseError, Span
+from sil_lift import Form, LiftParseError, Multitext, Span, Text
 
 CORPUS_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "corpus"
 
@@ -101,6 +101,26 @@ def test_subsenses_spot_check() -> None:
     assert str(sense_2.gloss("en") or "") == "master"
 
 
+def test_multitext_mapping_over_forms_no_mapping_can_represent() -> None:
+    # Both are schema-invalid input real exporters produce: a repeated
+    # language (what duplicate-form-lang reports) and a form with no lang.
+    multitext = Multitext(
+        forms=[
+            Form("en", Text(["first"])),
+            Form("en", Text(["second"])),
+            Form(None, Text(["orphan"])),
+            Form("fr", Text(["deux"])),
+        ]
+    )
+    assert list(multitext.keys()) == ["en", "fr"]
+    assert [str(text) for text in multitext.values()] == ["first", "deux"]
+    assert str(multitext["en"]) == "first"  # the first form wins the key
+    assert len(multitext) == len(dict(multitext)) == 2
+    # Nothing is lost: forms still holds all four, which is what validation reads.
+    assert len(multitext.forms) == 4
+    assert [str(form.text) for form in multitext.forms if form.lang is None] == ["orphan"]
+
+
 def test_all_senses_is_depth_first_document_order() -> None:
     lexicon = sil_lift.load(CORPUS_DIR / "spec-examples" / "0.13" / "subsenses.lift")
     entry = lexicon.find(id="opon")

From d319873ca5633c2a354c356ad3d8fa416ad47b67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:15:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 08/13] Hold the two invariants the validation rewrites rely on
 locally
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Both were true, and both were true somewhere else.

_nearest_entry bisects the entry table, which needs it ordered by line. That
held because entry_lines is built from the parsed document's root children in
order — a fact about _group_children_by_tag leaving the root alone, two
functions away from the bisect that depends on it. Sorting at the call site
states the requirement where it applies. The sort is keyed on the line rather
than comparing whole tuples, which would raise as soon as two entries sharing
a line differ in having an id.

_iter_instances descends into a match rather than stopping there, which is
harmless only while the model nests no Trait inside a Trait and no
GrammaticalInfo inside a GrammaticalInfo. That was established by reading the
dataclasses; the new test establishes it from the annotations, so gaining such
a field fails the suite instead of quietly widening what the walk yields.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/sil_lift/_validate.py |  8 ++++++--
 tests/test_validate.py    | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
index d0b4fd1..12e5ddc 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
@@ -204,9 +204,13 @@ def _schema_problems(
             )
         el.set("href", "masked:uri")  # see module docstring: anyURI is ours to report
     if not schema.validate(root.getroottree()):
-        # Entries are recorded in document order, so this is already sorted by
-        # line — which is what lets _nearest_entry bisect it.
+        # bisect needs this ordered by line. Document order already is, but
+        # sorting keeps that requirement here rather than borrowed from how
+        # entry_lines was built. Stable, so entries sharing a line stay in
+        # document order and the last of them still wins; keyed on the line
+        # alone, since comparing whole tuples would trip over a None id.
         addressable = [(at, id_, guid) for at, id_, guid in entry_lines if at is not None]
+        addressable.sort(key=lambda entry: entry[0])
         for error in schema.error_log:
             line = error.line if error.line and error.line > 0 else None
             entry_id, guid = _nearest_entry(addressable, line)
diff --git a/tests/test_validate.py b/tests/test_validate.py
index 64adbb0..10b4978 100644
--- a/tests/test_validate.py
+++ b/tests/test_validate.py
@@ -1,15 +1,48 @@
 import unicodedata
+from dataclasses import is_dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import get_args, get_type_hints
 
 import pytest
 
 import sil_lift
-from sil_lift import LiftValidationError, Problem
+from sil_lift import GrammaticalInfo, LiftValidationError, Problem, Trait
 
 CORPUS_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "corpus"
 NEGATIVE_DIR = CORPUS_DIR / "negative"
 
 
+def _reachable_dataclasses(root: type) -> set[type]:
+    """Every dataclass type reachable from ``root``'s annotations, transitively."""
+
+    def unwrap(hint: object) -> list[object]:
+        args = get_args(hint)
+        return [inner for arg in args for inner in unwrap(arg)] if args else [hint]
+
+    seen: set[type] = set()
+    stack = [root]
+    while stack:
+        for hint in get_type_hints(stack.pop()).values():
+            for arg in unwrap(hint):
+                if isinstance(arg, type) and is_dataclass(arg) and arg not in seen:
+                    seen.add(arg)
+                    stack.append(arg)
+    return seen
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("cls", [Trait, GrammaticalInfo])
+def test_model_nests_no_walked_class_inside_itself(cls: type) -> None:
+    """What lets ``_iter_instances`` descend into a match instead of stopping.
+
+    Descending is what finds a Multitext inside a Multitext's own annotations,
+    and is harmless for these two only while the model keeps neither reachable
+    from itself. Should that change, the walk would start yielding instances
+    its callers have never seen, so this fails rather than the count quietly
+    shifting.
+    """
+    assert cls not in _reachable_dataclasses(cls)
+
+
 def problems_for(path: Path) -> list[Problem]:
     return list(sil_lift.iter_problems(path))
 

From f665eb54a707ad979ba12223a72047a1a29f98b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:38:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 09/13] Leave the Multitext mapping change out of this branch
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Inheriting collections.abc.Mapping changes three things callers can see:
keys(), values() and items() return views rather than lists, len() counts
languages rather than forms, and a language spelled on two forms becomes one
key. Accepting that is a judgement about how much of a 0.x API is worth
breaking for a correct protocol, which nothing here shares a file with — the
rest of this branch deletes duplicated code without changing what anything
returns.

It is proposed on its own in #42, so it can be taken or refused without
holding up six changes that are only refactors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md                      | 13 +++-----
 docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md |  3 +-
 src/sil_lift/_text.py             | 52 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 tests/test_reader.py              | 24 ++------------
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4a40801..da239cd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,15 +25,10 @@ releases may contain breaking changes.
 - Project scaffolding: package skeleton, vendored LIFT 0.13 RELAX NG schema,
   test corpus with provenance, corpus-prep and large-file-generator tooling.
 - Full object model: all 35 LIFT 0.13 elements as typed dataclasses.
-  Multilingual fields are `Multitext`, a `Mapping` from language code to
-  `Text` that coerces plain strings on assignment; `len()` and the views
-  count languages, while the `forms` list stays the full truth for what no
-  mapping can represent — a form with no lang, and a second form for a
-  language already present (which validation reports as
-  `duplicate-form-lang`). `Entry.all_senses()` walks every subsense
-  depth-first in document order, which `Entry.senses` (top level only) does
-  not. `sil_lift.load()` / `Lexicon.load()` full-document reader that keeps
-  LIFT residue per node in `Extras`; LIFT-version guard.
+  `Entry.all_senses()` walks every subsense depth-first in document order,
+  which `Entry.senses` (top level only) does not. `sil_lift.load()` /
+  `Lexicon.load()` full-document reader that keeps LIFT residue per node in
+  `Extras`; LIFT-version guard.
 - `Lexicon.save()` writer with byte-fidelity passthrough — unchanged
   documents and untouched entries are written byte-identically; touched entries
   re-serialize canonically with all out-of-schema content preserved. Fidelity
diff --git a/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md b/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
index 37108bd..c7fe813 100644
--- a/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
+++ b/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lex = sil_lift.load("dictionary.lift")
 
 ## The model
 
-Every LIFT element is a typed dataclass: `Entry`, `Sense`, `Example`, `Pronunciation`, `Variant`, `Relation`, `Etymology`, `Reversal`, and so on. Multilingual text is a `Multitext`, which is a `Mapping` from language code to `Text`:
+Every LIFT element is a typed dataclass: `Entry`, `Sense`, `Example`, `Pronunciation`, `Variant`, `Relation`, `Etymology`, `Reversal`, and so on. Multilingual text is a `Multitext`, which behaves like a mapping from language code to `Text`:
 
 ```python
 entry = lex.find(id="abat")
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ entry = lex.find(id="abat")
 str(entry.lexical_unit["seh"])          # "abat"
 entry.lexical_unit["en"] = "grove"      # plain strings are coerced
 "en" in entry.citation                  # False
-entry.lexical_unit.keys()               # the languages present, in file order
 ```
 
 `Text` is structured — an ordered list of `str` and `Span` fragments — because `<text>` can contain nested `<span>` markup. `str(text)` flattens to plain text; the fragments keep the markup for round-tripping.
diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_text.py b/src/sil_lift/_text.py
index 40ae353..beb8849 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_text.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_text.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from collections.abc import Mapping
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from datetime import date, datetime
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
@@ -85,22 +84,13 @@ class Form:
 
 
 @dataclass(slots=True, repr=False)
-class Multitext(Mapping[str, Text]):
+class Multitext:
     """An insertion-ordered collection of forms, one per language.
 
-    A ``Mapping[str, Text]`` keyed by language — ``mt["en"]``, ``"en" in mt``,
-    ``mt.get(...)``, ``mt.keys()`` and the other views — plus the two mutators
-    LIFT editing needs: assignment coercing plain strings (``mt["en"] = "dog"``)
-    and deletion. The rest of ``MutableMapping`` is deliberately not inherited;
-    ``clear`` and ``popitem`` have no clear meaning for a form list that can
-    also hold forms no key reaches.
-
-    The ``forms`` list is the full truth, and holds what no mapping can
-    represent: a form with a ``None`` lang, and a second form for a language
-    already present. Both are schema-invalid input that real exporters produce
-    — a repeated language is what validation reports as
-    ``duplicate-form-lang``, off ``forms`` rather than off the mapping — and
-    neither is reachable by key or counted by ``len()``.
+    Behaves like a ``Mapping[str, Text]`` keyed by language (``mt["en"]``),
+    with assignment coercing plain strings (``mt["en"] = "dog"``). The
+    underlying ``forms`` list is the full truth — forms with a ``None`` lang
+    (schema-invalid input) are reachable there but not via mapping keys.
     """
 
     forms: list[Form] = field(default_factory=list)
@@ -132,27 +122,31 @@ def __delitem__(self, lang: str) -> None:
             raise KeyError(lang)
         self.forms.remove(form)
 
-    # Both read forms directly rather than through keys(): the inherited views
-    # are built on these two, so consulting a view here would not terminate.
+    def get(self, lang: str, default: Text | None = None) -> Text | None:
+        form = self._find(lang)
+        return default if form is None else form.text
+
+    def __contains__(self, lang: object) -> bool:
+        return isinstance(lang, str) and self._find(lang) is not None
+
     def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[str]:
-        # A language repeated across forms is one key, the one __getitem__
-        # answers with. Yielding it twice would make the inherited views
-        # report the first form's text once per duplicate, and leave len()
-        # disagreeing with dict(self).
-        seen: set[str] = set()
-        for form in self.forms:
-            if form.lang is not None and form.lang not in seen:
-                seen.add(form.lang)
-                yield form.lang
+        return iter(self.keys())
 
     def __len__(self) -> int:
-        return sum(1 for _ in self)
+        return len(self.forms)
 
     def __bool__(self) -> bool:
-        # Not derived from len(): emptiness here means "nothing to serialize",
-        # which residue and a lang-less form each defeat on their own.
         return bool(self.forms) or bool(self.extra)
 
+    def keys(self) -> list[str]:
+        return [form.lang for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None]
+
+    def values(self) -> list[Text]:
+        return [form.text for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None]
+
+    def items(self) -> list[tuple[str, Text]]:
+        return [(form.lang, form.text) for form in self.forms if form.lang is not None]
+
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         inner = ", ".join(f"{form.lang!r}: {str(form.text)!r}" for form in self.forms)
         return f"Multitext({{{inner}}})"
diff --git a/tests/test_reader.py b/tests/test_reader.py
index 6b25de1..ce97582 100644
--- a/tests/test_reader.py
+++ b/tests/test_reader.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 import sil_lift
-from sil_lift import Form, LiftParseError, Multitext, Span, Text
+from sil_lift import LiftParseError, Span
 
 CORPUS_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "corpus"
 
@@ -101,26 +101,6 @@ def test_subsenses_spot_check() -> None:
     assert str(sense_2.gloss("en") or "") == "master"
 
 
-def test_multitext_mapping_over_forms_no_mapping_can_represent() -> None:
-    # Both are schema-invalid input real exporters produce: a repeated
-    # language (what duplicate-form-lang reports) and a form with no lang.
-    multitext = Multitext(
-        forms=[
-            Form("en", Text(["first"])),
-            Form("en", Text(["second"])),
-            Form(None, Text(["orphan"])),
-            Form("fr", Text(["deux"])),
-        ]
-    )
-    assert list(multitext.keys()) == ["en", "fr"]
-    assert [str(text) for text in multitext.values()] == ["first", "deux"]
-    assert str(multitext["en"]) == "first"  # the first form wins the key
-    assert len(multitext) == len(dict(multitext)) == 2
-    # Nothing is lost: forms still holds all four, which is what validation reads.
-    assert len(multitext.forms) == 4
-    assert [str(form.text) for form in multitext.forms if form.lang is None] == ["orphan"]
-
-
 def test_all_senses_is_depth_first_document_order() -> None:
     lexicon = sil_lift.load(CORPUS_DIR / "spec-examples" / "0.13" / "subsenses.lift")
     entry = lexicon.find(id="opon")
@@ -207,7 +187,7 @@ def test_all_flex_fields_spot_check() -> None:
     assert span.class_ == "Hyperlink"
     (illustration,) = sense.illustrations
     assert illustration.href == "Desert.jpg"
-    assert list(illustration.label.keys()) == ["th", "en", "fr"]
+    assert illustration.label.keys() == ["th", "en", "fr"]
 
     other = lexicon.find(id="คาม ๒_dc4106ac-13fd-4ae0-a32b-b737f413d515")
     assert other is not None

From 606e5f22c34141dd5215168a57882829e9d4b905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:55:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 10/13] Say why the encoding guard is there, now that byte
 walking is not

The guard's stated reason was that "byte scanning assumes an ASCII-compatible
encoding", describing a scan that no longer exists. The reason it still holds
is different and less obvious: expat parses UTF-16 quite happily and reports
byte offsets into UTF-16 bytes, tag names and region boundaries and all, so
nothing downstream can tell those regions apart from usable ones. Reused
verbatim they leave an unchanged document identical to its source and an edited
one mixing both encodings, which will not parse at all.

The ranges-side guard, which carried no reason, gets one pointing at that.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/sil_lift/_reader.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_reader.py b/src/sil_lift/_reader.py
index ef98f1d..0eff1e9 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_reader.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_reader.py
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ def _attach_ranges_source(ranges_file: RangesFile, data: bytes, root: etree._Ele
     from ._scan import scan
     from ._writer import _RangeRecord, _RangesSourceInfo, range_digest
 
+    # As in _attach_source: byte regions only mean anything in an
+    # ASCII-compatible encoding, and only this check rules the others out.
     encoding = root.getroottree().docinfo.encoding
     if encoding is not None and encoding.lower() not in ("utf-8", "us-ascii", "ascii"):
         return
@@ -119,9 +121,13 @@ def _attach_source(lexicon: Lexicon, data: bytes, root: etree._Element) -> None:
     from ._scan import scan
     from ._writer import _EntryRecord, _SourceInfo, entry_digest, header_digest
 
+    # The regions scan reports are offsets into these bytes, and the writer
+    # splices them into a document it declares UTF-8. expat parses UTF-16
+    # perfectly well and would report offsets into UTF-16 bytes, tags and all,
+    # so nothing downstream would notice; this is the only thing that says no.
     encoding = root.getroottree().docinfo.encoding
     if encoding is not None and encoding.lower() not in ("utf-8", "us-ascii", "ascii"):
-        return  # byte scanning assumes an ASCII-compatible encoding
+        return
     result = scan(data)
     if result is None:
         return

From 0bb4ecf751844043cb030033966c18df7cea3b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 09:34:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 11/13] Give the companion-discovery rules a subsection of
 their own
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The ranges guide now runs load, read, edit, save without a detour
through resolution. The three candidate sources move below the
standalone example as a bulleted "Companion discovery", where the
resolve_ranges=False opt-out already sat stranded at the foot of the
section, and gain the case/normalization matching rule — which the guide
had never stated, leaving validate.md's ambiguous-ranges-file row as the
only prose that mentioned it, and that only from the failure side.

The changelog drops that same matching rule, which says how discovery
resolves rather than what the release offers, and no longer calls the
vendored ranges schema the first of its kind: the entry says what ships,
the guide says how it behaves.

The comment on the sort feeding _nearest_entry's bisect moves onto the
sort, off the filter that precedes it, and stops noting that list.sort
is stable — documented Python, and the tie that settles is already
described by _nearest_entry itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md                   | 14 ++++++--------
 docs/en/guides/folder-media.md | 12 ++++++++++--
 src/sil_lift/_validate.py      |  8 +++-----
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index da239cd..9ad0463 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -53,14 +53,12 @@ releases may contain breaking changes.
   against the most recent `save()`.
 - LIFT-folder handling: `RangesFile` (standalone `.lift-ranges` documents,
   same fidelity guarantees), automatic companion discovery/tracking on load
-  (`Lexicon.ranges_files`, matching companion filenames across case and
-  Unicode normalization differences), `save()` writes companions together,
-  `all_ranges()` merged view, `media_refs()` / `missing_media()` helpers
-  (every subsense, in document order), build-from-scratch helpers
-  `Lexicon.add_ranges_file()` / `RangesFile.add_range()` /
-  `Range.add_element()` (`save()` writes and header-references a new
-  companion beside the `.lift`); vendored `schemas/lift-ranges-0.13.rng` —
-  the first schema for standalone ranges documents.
+  (`Lexicon.ranges_files`), `save()` writes companions together,
+  `all_ranges()` merged view, `media_refs()` / `missing_media()` helpers,
+  build-from-scratch helpers `Lexicon.add_ranges_file()` /
+  `RangesFile.add_range()` / `Range.add_element()` (`save()` writes and
+  header-references a new companion beside the `.lift`); vendored
+  `schemas/lift-ranges-0.13.rng` for standalone ranges documents.
 - Zipped LIFT packages: `sil_lift.load()` reads a `.zip` (both the flat and
   folder-wrapped layouts, junk entries like `__MACOSX` ignored),
   `Lexicon.save_zip()` writes one (carrying media, `WritingSystems/`, and other
diff --git a/docs/en/guides/folder-media.md b/docs/en/guides/folder-media.md
index 16497fb..420134c 100644
--- a/docs/en/guides/folder-media.md
+++ b/docs/en/guides/folder-media.md
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ lex.all_ranges()                            # merged {id: Range} view
 lex.all_ranges()["grammatical-info"].elements
 ```
 
-Companion discovery handles the real world: a `range/@href` that points at an existing file is used; FieldWorks' dangling absolute `file://C:/...` hrefs fall back to the href's basename next to the `.lift`; and the conventional `<name>.lift-ranges` sibling is picked up even when nothing references it.
-
 `lex.save()` writes the `.lift` and every tracked companion together. Edits to a `RangesFile` save back to _its_ file; untouched ranges keep their exact bytes. Standalone use:
 
 ```python
@@ -23,6 +21,16 @@ ranges.sort()
 ranges.save()
 ```
 
+### Companion discovery
+
+Several candidates are tried, and every distinct file among them is loaded.
+
+- A header `range/@href` that points at an existing file is used as given.
+- An href that resolves to nothing falls back to its basename next to the `.lift` — FieldWorks writes dangling absolute `file://C:/...` paths from the exporting machine, and that fallback is what makes them work locally.
+- The conventional `<name>.lift-ranges` sibling is picked up even when nothing references it.
+
+Names that differ only in case or Unicode normalization still match — `Dict.LIFT` finds `Dict.lift-ranges` — unless several files match one name, which loads none of them and is reported as [`ambiguous-ranges-file`](validate.md#problem-codes).
+
 Pass `resolve_ranges=False` to `load()` to skip companion discovery.
 
 ## Media
diff --git a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
index 12e5ddc..bded1d2 100644
--- a/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
+++ b/src/sil_lift/_validate.py
@@ -204,12 +204,10 @@ def _schema_problems(
             )
         el.set("href", "masked:uri")  # see module docstring: anyURI is ours to report
     if not schema.validate(root.getroottree()):
-        # bisect needs this ordered by line. Document order already is, but
-        # sorting keeps that requirement here rather than borrowed from how
-        # entry_lines was built. Stable, so entries sharing a line stay in
-        # document order and the last of them still wins; keyed on the line
-        # alone, since comparing whole tuples would trip over a None id.
         addressable = [(at, id_, guid) for at, id_, guid in entry_lines if at is not None]
+        # sort to enforce the requirement for bisect (even though it's already
+        # sorted by construction of entry_lines). Key the sort on the line,
+        # since comparing whole tuples would trip over a None id.
         addressable.sort(key=lambda entry: entry[0])
         for error in schema.error_log:
             line = error.line if error.line and error.line > 0 else None

From 2f133f7748ae5b7e94fb12bbb6937140da591a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:01:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 12/13] Point the guides at Entry.all_senses()

The bulk-edit worked example built its own recursive generator to reach
glosses under subsenses, which all_senses() now does. The note that
explained the recursion becomes a note about the method, and the
entry.senses pitfall it warned about moves to a sub-bullet under it.

The model tour introduced senses as entry.senses[0] and said nothing
about nesting, leaving the partial accessor as the one a reader meets
first and all_senses() reachable only through the generated API
reference. Its sense block now shows both, with the comments saying
which covers what, and a line on which one to reach for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docs/en/guides/bulk-edit-glosses.md | 13 +++----------
 docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md   |  9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/en/guides/bulk-edit-glosses.md b/docs/en/guides/bulk-edit-glosses.md
index e5976cb..2a82496 100644
--- a/docs/en/guides/bulk-edit-glosses.md
+++ b/docs/en/guides/bulk-edit-glosses.md
@@ -12,18 +12,10 @@ import sil_lift
 path = "dictionary.lift"
 lex = sil_lift.load(path)
 
-
-def iter_senses(senses):
-    """Yield every sense, including subsenses (recursive)."""
-    for sense in senses:
-        yield sense
-        yield from iter_senses(sense.subsenses)
-
-
 edited_glosses = 0
 
 for entry in lex.entries:
-    for sense in iter_senses(entry.senses):
+    for sense in entry.all_senses():
         for gloss in sense.glosses:
             if gloss.lang != "en":
                 continue
@@ -47,7 +39,8 @@ print(f"edited {edited_glosses} gloss(es) across {len(changed)} entry(ies)")
 
 A few things worth noting:
 
-- `Sense.subsenses` is itself a `list[Sense]`, so `iter_senses` recurses into it — a bulk edit that only walked `entry.senses` would silently skip any gloss nested under a subsense.
+- `entry.all_senses()` yields every sense _and subsense_, depth-first in document order.
+    - `entry.senses` holds only the top level, so a bulk edit that walked it would silently skip any gloss nested under a subsense.
 - `gloss.text` is a `Text`, not a plain string: `str(gloss.text)` flattens it for matching, and the replacement is written back with `sil_lift.Text([new])` rather than mutating the string in place.
 - `lex.changed_entries()` reports which entries differ from the file as loaded. Since an entry's digest covers its whole subtree, an edit to a nested subsense reports the entry that contains it.
     - It compares serialized content, so assigning a field the value it already had isn't reported.
diff --git a/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md b/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
index c7fe813..5f4f7a2 100644
--- a/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
+++ b/docs/en/guides/read-edit-write.md
@@ -24,14 +24,17 @@ entry.lexical_unit["en"] = "grove"      # plain strings are coerced
 
 `Text` is structured — an ordered list of `str` and `Span` fragments — because `<text>` can contain nested `<span>` markup. `str(text)` flattens to plain text; the fragments keep the markup for round-tripping.
 
-Glosses are _form-shaped_ in LIFT (each `<gloss>` carries its own language), so a sense has `glosses: list[Form]` plus a helper:
+Glosses are _form-shaped_ in LIFT (each `<gloss>` carries its own language), so a sense has `glosses: list[Form]` plus helpers:
 
 ```python
-sense = entry.senses[0]
+sense = entry.senses[0]                 # top level only
 sense.gloss("en")                       # Text | None
-entry.gloss_langs()                     # {"en", "id"}
+entry.all_senses()                      # every sense and subsense, document order
+entry.gloss_langs()                     # {"en", "id"}, subsenses included
 ```
 
+Reach for `all_senses()` whenever a question concerns the whole entry: counting senses, collecting languages, finding media. `entry.senses` gives the top level, which is what you want only when the nesting itself matters.
+
 ## Saving
 
 ```python

From 004defddb5c869bcd4649f47e3153ba123aec50f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Rorabaugh <imnasnainaec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:46:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] Pin the two scanner rules the corpus does not exercise

No corpus document carries a ">" inside an attribute value, so replacing
_tag_end's quote tracking with a plain search for the delimiter passed the
whole suite. Ignoring the "/" that marks an empty element passed every
test but the Hypothesis round-trips, which report it as a byte-identity
failure far from its cause; the existing self-closing test covers the
root, which appends no region at all.

Three cases now fail deterministically instead. An empty child needs both
rules right at once, because its region ends at the measured tag end
rather than at the end event, so that case covers either mistake alone.

The non-empty child in the attribute-value case is asserted as well: its
end comes from the end event, so a tag end stopping inside an attribute
value still leaves its region correct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 tests/test_scan.py | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_scan.py b/tests/test_scan.py
index 197b9f0..8fdb93e 100644
--- a/tests/test_scan.py
+++ b/tests/test_scan.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from sil_lift._scan import ScanResult, scan
 
 # --- happy path (incl. exotic-but-valid CDATA / processing instruction /
-# self-closing root) ---
+# self-closing root and child / ">" inside an attribute value) ---
 
 
 def test_scans_simple_document() -> None:
@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ def test_scans_simple_document() -> None:
     assert data[region.start : region.end] == b'<entry id="a"></entry>'
 
 
+def test_gt_inside_an_attribute_value_is_not_the_tag_end() -> None:
+    """What ``_tag_end``'s quote tracking is for: searching for the delimiter
+    instead ends the root's open tag inside the attribute value."""
+    data = b'<lift version="0.13" note="a>b"><entry id="c" note="x>y"></entry></lift>'
+    result = scan(data)
+    assert result is not None
+    root = data[result.root_open_start : result.root_open_end]
+    assert root == b'<lift version="0.13" note="a>b">'
+    region = result.children[0]
+    assert data[region.start : region.end] == b'<entry id="c" note="x>y"></entry>'
+
+
 def test_self_closing_root_returns_empty_children() -> None:
     result = scan(b'<lift version="0.13"/>')
     assert result is not None
@@ -35,6 +47,36 @@ def test_self_closing_root_returns_empty_children() -> None:
     assert result.children == []
 
 
+def test_self_closing_root_child_gets_the_element_as_its_region() -> None:
+    """The child half of the empty-element rule ``_scan.end_element`` explains.
+
+    The self-closing *root* above appends no region, so only this reaches the
+    branch that produces one, and a sibling after it is pushed by the same
+    mistake.
+    """
+    data = b'<lift version="0.13"><header/><entry id="a"></entry></lift>'
+    result = scan(data)
+    assert result is not None
+    assert [c.tag for c in result.children] == ["header", "entry"]
+    header, entry = result.children
+    assert data[header.start : header.end] == b"<header/>"
+    assert data[entry.start : entry.end] == b'<entry id="a"></entry>'
+
+
+def test_self_closing_child_with_a_gt_in_an_attribute() -> None:
+    """Where the two rules meet: an empty child's region is its start tag.
+
+    Its ``end`` comes from the measured tag end rather than from the end
+    event, so a tag end that stopped inside the attribute value would corrupt
+    the region itself. Below the root, this is the only case that does.
+    """
+    data = b'<lift version="0.13"><entry id="c" note="x>y"/></lift>'
+    result = scan(data)
+    assert result is not None
+    region = result.children[0]
+    assert data[region.start : region.end] == b'<entry id="c" note="x>y"/>'
+
+
 def test_cdata_root_child_is_skipped() -> None:
     data = b'<lift version="0.13"><![CDATA[<not a tag>]]><entry id="a"></entry></lift>'
     result = scan(data)