| ## Text Encoding Initiative
### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines # <samplingDecl>

`<samplingDecl>` | (sampling declaration) contains a prose description of the rationale and methods used in sampling texts in the creation of a corpus or collection.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from declarable
Example |
Note | This element records all information about systematic inclusion or omission of portions of the text, whether a reflection of sampling procedures in the pure sense or of systematic omission of material deemed either too difficult to transcribe or not of sufficient interest.
Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class | declarable
May contain | p
May occur within | encodingDesc
Declaration |
    <!ELEMENT samplingDecl %om.RO; (p+)>
    <!ATTLIST samplingDecl
          %a.global;
          %a.declarable;>
See further | 5.3.2 The Sampling Declaration; 5.3 The Encoding Description; 23.3.2 Declarable Elements

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