<taxonomy>

<taxonomy> (taxonomy) defines a typology either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy. [2.3.7. The Classification Declaration]
Moduleheader
Attributes
Contained by
header: classDecl taxonomy
May contain
core: bibl biblStruct desc gloss listBibl
header: biblFull category taxonomy
msdescription: msDesc
Note

Nested taxonomies are common in many fields, so the taxonomy element can be nested.

Example
<taxonomy xml:id="tax.b">
 <bibl>Brown Corpus</bibl>
 <category xml:id="tax.b.a">
  <catDesc>Press Reportage</catDesc>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a1">
   <catDesc>Daily</catDesc>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a2">
   <catDesc>Sunday</catDesc>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a3">
   <catDesc>National</catDesc>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a4">
   <catDesc>Provincial</catDesc>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a5">
   <catDesc>Political</catDesc>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.a6">
   <catDesc>Sports</catDesc>
  </category>
 </category>
 <category xml:id="tax.b.d">
  <catDesc>Religion</catDesc>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.d1">
   <catDesc>Books</catDesc>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="tax.b.d2">
   <catDesc>Periodicals and tracts</catDesc>
  </category>
 </category>
</taxonomy>
Example
<taxonomy>
 <category xml:id="literature">
  <catDesc>Literature</catDesc>
  <category xml:id="poetry">
   <catDesc>Poetry</catDesc>
   <category xml:id="sonnet">
    <catDesc>Sonnet</catDesc>
    <category xml:id="shakesSonnet">
     <catDesc>Shakespearean Sonnet</catDesc>
    </category>
    <category xml:id="petraSonnet">
     <catDesc>Petrarchan Sonnet</catDesc>
    </category>
   </category>
   <category xml:id="haiku">
    <catDesc>Haiku</catDesc>
   </category>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="drama">
   <catDesc>Drama</catDesc>
  </category>
 </category>
 <category xml:id="meter">
  <catDesc>Metrical Categories</catDesc>
  <category xml:id="feet">
   <catDesc>Metrical Feet</catDesc>
   <category xml:id="iambic">
    <catDesc>Iambic</catDesc>
   </category>
   <category xml:id="trochaic">
    <catDesc>trochaic</catDesc>
   </category>
  </category>
  <category xml:id="feetNumber">
   <catDesc>Number of feet</catDesc>
   <category xml:id="pentameter">
    <catDesc>>Pentameter</catDesc>
   </category>
   <category xml:id="tetrameter">
    <catDesc>>Tetrameter</catDesc>
   </category>
  </category>
 </category>
</taxonomy>
<!-- elsewhere in document -->
<lg ana="#shakesSonnet #iambic #pentameter">
 <l>Shall I compare thee to a summer's day</l>
<!-- ... -->
</lg>
Content model
<content>
 <alternate>
  <alternate>
   <alternate minOccurs="1"
    maxOccurs="unbounded">
    <elementRef key="category"/>
    <elementRef key="taxonomy"/>
   </alternate>
   <sequence>
    <alternate minOccurs="1"
     maxOccurs="unbounded">
     <classRef key="model.descLike"
      minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
     <elementRef key="equiv" minOccurs="1"
      maxOccurs="1"/>
     <elementRef key="gloss" minOccurs="1"
      maxOccurs="1"/>
    </alternate>
    <alternate minOccurs="0"
     maxOccurs="unbounded">
     <elementRef key="category"/>
     <elementRef key="taxonomy"/>
    </alternate>
   </sequence>
  </alternate>
  <sequence>
   <classRef key="model.biblLike"/>
   <alternate minOccurs="0"
    maxOccurs="unbounded">
    <elementRef key="category"/>
    <elementRef key="taxonomy"/>
   </alternate>
  </sequence>
 </alternate>
</content>
Schema Declaration
element taxonomy
{
   tei_att.global.attributes,
   tei_att.datcat.attributes,
   (
      (
         ( tei_category | tei_taxonomy )+
       | (
            ( tei_model.descLike | equiv | tei_gloss )+,
            ( tei_category | tei_taxonomy )*
         )
      )
    | ( tei_model.biblLike, ( tei_category | tei_taxonomy )* )
   )
}