This proved to be a very suitable strategy for dealing with the complexity of the normalisation process. Concerning the choice of XProc pipelines, it has already been shown that small-step pipelines making use of a stateless language such as XSLT prove to be advantageous in that they reduce the complexity of computer programs, they can be easily shared with the peers and they improve the sustainability of the code (Barabucci and Schaeben 2021). Not only were the pipelines successful in generating three levels of normalisation of the texts, but they could also be applied to the transcriptions of all the witnesses edited, despite the fact that some were written in the East-Swabian dialect, and some in Bavarian. This was probably due to the geographical proximity and the contemporaneity of their production, which leads to hypothesise the possibility of creating “pools of rules” for the editing of witnesses written in specific areas and historical periods.