## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <valDesc>

`<valDesc>` | (value description) specifies any semantic or syntactic constraint on the value that an attribute may take, additional to the information carried by the `<datatype>` element.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

    <valDesc>must point to another <gi>align</gi>
        element logically preceding this
        one.</valDesc>

Module | Declared in file teitsd2; Auxiliary DTD for Tag Set documentation
Data Description | contains any sequence of phrase level elements or pcdata
May contain | #PCDATA abbr add address att cb corr date dateRange del distinct emph expan foreign gap gi gloss hi index lb measure mentioned milestone name num orig pb ptr ref reg rs sic soCalled tag term time timeRange title unclear val
May occur within |

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT valDesc %om.RO; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST valDesc
          %a.global;>

See further | 27.1.1 The AttList Documentation Element

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