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taxonomy

defines a typology either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy.

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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.datcat @datcat@valueDatcat@targetDatcat

Classes and content

May contain

core

header

msdescription

tagdocs

Contained by

header

Note

Nested taxonomies are common in many fields, so the taxonomy element can be nested.

Examples

<taxonomy xml:id="tax.b">
  <bibl>Brown Corpus</bibl>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a">
    <catDesc>Press Reportage</catDesc>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.a1">
      <catDesc>Daily</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.a2">
      <catDesc>Sunday</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.a3">
      <catDesc>National</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.a4">
      <catDesc>Provincial</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.a5">
      <catDesc>Political</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.a6">
      <catDesc>Sports</catDesc>
    </category>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.d">
    <catDesc>Religion</catDesc>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.d1">
      <catDesc>Books</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="tax.b.d2">
      <catDesc>Periodicals and tracts</catDesc>
    </category>
  </category>
</taxonomy>

<taxonomy>
  <category xml:id="literature">
    <catDesc>Literature</catDesc>
    <category xml:id="poetry">
      <catDesc>Poetry</catDesc>
      <category xml:id="sonnet">
        <catDesc>Sonnet</catDesc>
        <category xml:id="shakesSonnet">
          <catDesc>Shakespearean Sonnet</catDesc>
        </category>
        <category xml:id="petraSonnet">
          <catDesc>Petrarchan Sonnet</catDesc>
        </category>
      </category>
      <category xml:id="haiku">
        <catDesc>Haiku</catDesc>
      </category>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="drama">
      <catDesc>Drama</catDesc>
    </category>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="meter">
    <catDesc>Metrical Categories</catDesc>
    <category xml:id="feet">
      <catDesc>Metrical Feet</catDesc>
      <category xml:id="iambic">
        <catDesc>Iambic</catDesc>
      </category>
      <category xml:id="trochaic">
        <catDesc>trochaic</catDesc>
      </category>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="feetNumber">
      <catDesc>Number of feet</catDesc>
      <category xml:id="pentameter">
        <catDesc>&gt;Pentameter</catDesc>
      </category>
      <category xml:id="tetrameter">
        <catDesc>&gt;Tetrameter</catDesc>
      </category>
    </category>
  </category>
</taxonomy>
<!-- elsewhere in document -->
<lg ana="#shakesSonnet #iambic #pentameter">
  <l>Shall I compare thee to a summer's day</l>
  <!-- ... -->
</lg>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate>
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      <alternate>
        <alternate minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <elementRef key="category"/>
          <elementRef key="taxonomy"/>
        </alternate>
        <sequence>
          <alternate minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <classRef key="model.descLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
            <elementRef key="equiv" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
            <elementRef key="gloss" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
          </alternate>
          <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <elementRef key="category"/>
            <elementRef key="taxonomy"/>
          </alternate>
        </sequence>
      </alternate>
      <sequence>
        <classRef key="model.biblLike"/>
        <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <elementRef key="category"/>
          <elementRef key="taxonomy"/>
        </alternate>
      </sequence>
    </alternate>
  </content>