## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <catDesc>

`<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>`.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

    <catDesc>Prose reportage</catDesc>

Example

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

Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain | #PCDATA abbr add address app c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula geogName gloss handShift hi lang m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied term textDesc time timeRange timeStruct title unclear w xptr xref
May occur within | category

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT catDesc %om.RO; (#PCDATA | %m.phrase; | textDesc )*>
    <!ATTLIST catDesc
          %a.global;>

See further | 5.3.6 The Classification Declaration

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