## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <taxonomy>

`<taxonomy>` | (taxonomy) defines a typology used to classify texts either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

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

Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain | bibl biblFull biblStruct category
May occur within | classDecl

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT taxonomy %om.RR; (category+ | ((bibl | biblStruct | biblFull),
                                     category*))>
    <!ATTLIST taxonomy
          %a.global;>

See further | 5.3.6 The Classification Declaration

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