## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <textDesc>

`<textDesc>` | (text description) provides a description of a text in terms of its situational parameters.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from declarable

Example

    <textDesc id="t1" n="Informal domestic conversation">
       <channel mode="s">  </channel>
       <constitution type="single">  </constitution>
       <derivation type="original">  </derivation>
       <domain type="domestic">  </domain>
       <factuality type="mixed">  </factuality>
       <interaction type="complete" active="plural" passive="many">  </interaction>
       <preparedness type="spontaneous">  </preparedness>
       <purpose type="entertain" degree="high">  </purpose>
       <purpose type="inform" degree="medium"/>
    </textDesc>

Module | Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Class | declarable
May contain | channel constitution derivation domain factuality interaction preparedness purpose
May occur within | catDesc profileDesc

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT textDesc %om.RO;  ( channel, constitution, derivation,
                         domain, factuality, interaction,
                         preparedness, purpose+ ) >
    <!ATTLIST textDesc
          %a.global;
          %a.declarable;>

See further | 23.2.1 The Text Description

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