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<catDesc>

category description

describes some category within a taxonomy or text typology, either in the form of a brief prose description or in terms of the situational parameters used by the TEI formal textDesc.

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Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.canonical @key@ref

Classes and content

May contain

core

corpus

dictionaries

header

msdescription

namesdates

tagdocs

transcr

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

header

Examples

<catDesc>Prose reportage</catDesc>

<catDesc>
  <textDesc n="novel">
    <channel mode="w">print; part issues</channel>
    <constitution type="single"/>
    <derivation type="original"/>
    <domain type="art"/>
    <factuality type="fiction"/>
    <interaction type="none"/>
    <preparedness type="prepared"/>
    <purpose type="entertain" degree="high"/>
    <purpose type="inform" degree="medium"/>
  </textDesc>
</catDesc>

Content model

<content>
    
      <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <textNode/>
        <classRef key="model.limitedPhrase"/>
        <classRef key="model.catDescPart"/>
      </alternate>
    
  </content>