<encodingDesc>

<encodingDesc> (descrizione della codifica) documenta la relazione fra un documento elettronico e la o le fonti da cui è derivato. [2.3 The Encoding Description 2.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components]
Modulo header — The TEI Header
Attributi
Membro del
model.teiHeaderPart
Contenuto in
header: teiHeader
Può contenere
core: p
gaiji: charDecl
header: appInfo classDecl editorialDecl geoDecl listPrefixDef projectDesc refsDecl samplingDecl schemaRef styleDefDecl tagsDecl unitDecl
iso-fs: fsdDecl
linking: ab
spoken: transcriptionDesc
tagdocs: constraintDecl schemaSpec
textcrit: variantEncoding
verse: metDecl
Esempio
<encodingDesc>
 <p>Basic encoding, capturing lexical information only. All
   hyphenation, punctuation, and variant spellings normalized. No
   formatting or layout information preserved.</p>
</encodingDesc>
Content model 
<content>
 <alternate minOccurs="1"
  maxOccurs="unbounded">
  <classRef key="model.encodingDescPart"/>
  <classRef key="model.pLike"/>
 </alternate>
</content>
Dichiarazione 
<rng:element name="encodingDesc">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:oneOrMore>
  <rng:choice>
   <rng:ref name="model.encodingDescPart"/>
   <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/>
  </rng:choice>
 </rng:oneOrMore>
</rng:element>
element encodingDesc
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   ( model.encodingDescPart | model.pLike )+
}