<sourceDesc>

<sourceDesc> (source description) describes the source(s) from which an electronic text was derived or generated, typically a bibliographic description in the case of a digitized text, or a phrase such as "born digital" for a text which has no previous existence. [2.2.7. The Source Description]
Module header
Attributes Attributes att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source))
Contained by
header: fileDesc
May contain
core: bibl biblStruct list listBibl p
figures: table
linking: ab
msdescription: msDesc
namesdates: listObject listOrg listPerson listPlace
Examples

<sourceDesc>
   <bibl>
      <title level="a">The Interesting story of the Children in the Wood</title>. In
         <author>Victor E Neuberg</author>, <title>The Penny Histories</title>.
         <publisher>OUP</publisher>
      <date>1968</date>. </bibl>
</sourceDesc>

<sourceDesc>
   <p>Born digital: no previous source exists.</p>
</sourceDesc>
Source Github

<elementSpec module="header" ident="sourceDesc">
   <gloss>source description</gloss>
   <desc>describes the source(s) from which an electronic text was derived or generated, typically a
bibliographic description in the case of a digitized text, or a phrase such as "born digital"
for a text which has no previous existence.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <alternate>
         <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         <alternate minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <classRef key="model.biblLike"/>
            <classRef key="model.sourceDescPart"/>
            <classRef key="model.listLike"/>
         </alternate>
      </alternate>
   </content>
</elementSpec>