<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 — 2 The TEI Header
Used by
model.teiHeaderPart
May contain
core: p
gaiji: charDecl
header: appInfo classDecl editorialDecl geoDecl projectDesc refsDecl samplingDecl tagsDecl
iso-fs: fsdDecl
linking: ab
textcrit: variantEncoding
verse: metDecl
Declaration 

<rng:element name="encodingDesc">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:group>
  <rng:oneOrMore>
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:ref name="model.encodingDescPart"/>
    <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:oneOrMore>
 </rng:group>
</rng:element>
element encodingDesc
{
   att.global.attributes,
   ( ( model.encodingDescPart | model.pLike )+ )
}
Example
<encodingDesc>
 <p>Basic encoding, capturing lexical information only. All
   hyphenation, punctuation, and variant spellings normalized. No
   formatting or layout information preserved.</p>
</encodingDesc>