catRef

<catRef>

<catRef> (category reference) specifies one or more defined categories within some taxonomy or text typology. 2.4.3 The Text Classification

Module

header — 2 The TEI Header

Attributes

In addition to global attributes

target

identifies the categories concerned

Status	Required
Datatype	1–∞ occurrences of <rng:ref name="data.pointer"/> data.pointer separated by whitespace
Values	A series of one or more space-separated pointers (URIs) to <category> elements, typically located within a <taxonomy> element inside a TEI header

scheme

identifies the classification scheme within which the set of categories concerned is defined

Status	Optional
Datatype	<rng:ref name="data.pointer"/> data.pointer
Values	May supply the identifier of the associated <taxonomy> element.

Used by

textClass

May contain

Empty element

Declaration


<rng:element name="catRef">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:attribute name="target">
 <rng:list>
  <rng:oneOrMore>
   <rng:ref name="data.pointer"/>
  </rng:oneOrMore>
 </rng:list>
</rng:attribute>
<rng:optional>
 <rng:attribute name="scheme">
  <rng:ref name="data.pointer"/>
 </rng:attribute>
</rng:optional>
<rng:empty/>
</rng:element>

element catRef
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute target { list { data.pointer+ } },
   attribute scheme { data.pointer }?,
   empty
}

Example

<catRef target="#news #prov #sales2"/>

<taxonomy>
<category xml:id="news">
  <catDesc>Newspapers</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="prov">
  <catDesc>Provincial</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="sales2">
  <catDesc>Low to average annual sales</catDesc>
</category>
</taxonomy>

Note

The scheme attribute need be supplied only if more than one taxonomy has been declared

P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

<catRef>