<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 ]Module header — Specification Attributes Contained by May contain Note Nested taxonomies are common in many fields, so the <taxonomy> element can be nested.
Example P5 <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 P5 <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>
<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
{
att.global.attributes ,
att.datcat.attributes ,
(
(
( category | taxonomy )+
| ( ( model.descLike | equiv | gloss )+, ( category | taxonomy )* )
)
| ( model.biblLike , ( category | taxonomy )* )
)
}⚓