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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