| <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: |  | 
| Example |     <catDesc>Prose reportage | 
| Example | <catDesc>
    <textDesc n=novel>
     <channel mode=w>print; part issues
     <constitution type=single>
     <derivation type=original>
     <domain type=art><factuality type=fiction>
     <interaction type=none>
     <preparedness type=prepared>
     <purpose type=entertain degree=high>
     <purpose type=inform degree=medium>
    </textDesc>
</catDesc> | 
| Note |  | 
| Tagset | auxiliary tag set for TEI headers | 
| Class |  | 
| Filename | teihdr2 | 
| Parents | category | 
| Children | #PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage 
date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw 
geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link 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 tag term textDesc time 
timeRange timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref | 
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT catDesc       - O  (%phrase.seq; | textDesc)          >
<!ATTLIST catDesc            %a.global                          > | 
| See | 5.3.6 |