<encodingDesc>
| <encodingDesc> (encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived. 2.3 The Encoding Description 2.1.1 The TEI Header and its Components | |
| Module | header — 2 The TEI Header | 
| Used by | |
| May contain | |
| Declaration | 
 element encodingDesc { att.global.attributes, ( ( model.encodingPart | model.pLike )+ ) } | 
| Example | <encodingDesc> <p>Basic encoding, capturing lexical information only. All hyphenation, punctuation, and variant spellings normalized. No formatting or layout information preserved.</p> </encodingDesc> | 
