<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
Attributes Attributes att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source))
Member of
model.teiHeaderPart
Contained by
header: teiHeader
May contain
core: p
gaiji: charDecl
header: listPrefixDef projectDesc tagsDecl
linking: ab
Examples

<encodingDesc>
   <p>Basic encoding, capturing lexical information only. All
hyphenation, punctuation, and variant spellings normalized. No
formatting or layout information preserved.</p>
</encodingDesc>
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<elementSpec module="header" ident="encodingDesc">
   <gloss>encoding description</gloss>
   <desc>documents the relationship between an electronic text and the
source or sources from which it was derived.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
      <memberOf key="model.teiHeaderPart"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <alternate minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
         <classRef key="model.encodingDescPart"/>
         <classRef key="model.pLike"/>
      </alternate>
   </content>
</elementSpec>