<catDesc>
| <catDesc> (Beschreibung der Kategorie) Kategorie innerhalb einer Taxonomie oder Texttypologie, entweder als einfache Beschreibung oder über situative Parameter, wie im TEI-Format textDesc dargestellt. 2.3.6 The Classification Declaration | |
| Modul | header — 2 The TEI Header | 
| Attribute | |
| Verwendet von | |
| Kann enthalten | core: abbr address choice date distinct email emph expan foreign gloss measure measureGrp mentioned name num ptr ref rs soCalled term time title  corpus: textDesc  dictionaries: lang  msdescription: catchwords depth dimensions height heraldry locus material origDate origPlace secFol signatures stamp watermark width   | 
| Deklaration | 
 element catDesc { att.global.attributes, ( text | model.limitedPhrase | model.catDescPart )* }  | 
| Beispiel | <catDesc>Prose reportage</catDesc>  | 
| Beispiel | <catDesc> <textDesc n="novel"> <channel mode="w">print; part issues</channel> <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>  | 
