While encoding a 16th century manuscript corpus, I'd like to mark
"interesting" words and associate them with a category.  For instance, I
mark all the places, all the pieces of furniture, etc.  For that
purpose, I use the <RS> tag with a specific TYPE attribute.  I'd like to
document the taxonomy I use, and intended to do so in the
<classdecl> section of the header, but when I read the documentation, it
seems to be defined for a completely different purpose.
 
What I intended to do what something like:
 
<taxonomy>
 <categoriy id=places><catdesc>places
   <category id=topo><catdesc>toponyme
     <category id=country><catdesc>country
       <category id=region><catdesc>region
         <category><catdesc>...
     <category id=river><catdesc>river</catdesc>
   ...
 </catdesc>
 <catdesc id=furniture>furniture
   ...
 <catdesc id=arm>Arm
   ...
</taxonomy>
 
Then, in the text, reference it like:
"the crime occured in <rs type=country>France</rs> ..."
 
Did I miss something in the TEI guidelines that could help me in doing
this, or has anybody done something similar?
 
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