<catDesc>
| <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. 2.3.6 The Classification Declaration | |
| Module | header — 2 The TEI Header | 
| Used by | |
| May contain | 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  header: idno  msdescription: catchwords depth dim dimensions height heraldry locus locusGrp material origDate origPlace secFol signatures stamp watermark width  | 
| Declaration | 
 element catDesc { att.global.attributes, ( text | model.limitedPhrase | model.catDescPart )* } | 
| Example | |
| Example | <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> | 
