## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <profileDesc>

`<profileDesc>` | (text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

    <profileDesc>
      <langUsage>
        <language wsd="FRA">French</language>
      </langUsage>
      <textDesc n="novel">
        <channel mode="w">print; part issues</channel>
        <constitution type="single"/>
        <derivation type="original"/>
        <domain type="art"/>
        <factuality type="fiction"/>
        <interaction type="none"/>
        <preparedness type="prepared"/>
        <purpose type="entertain" degree="high"/>
        <purpose type="inform" degree="medium"/>
      </textDesc>
      <settingDesc>
        <setting>
         <name>Paris, France</name>
         <time>Late 19th century</time>
        </setting>
      </settingDesc>
    </profileDesc>

Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain | creation handList langUsage particDesc settingDesc textClass textDesc
May occur within | teiHeader

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT profileDesc %om.RR;  (creation?, langUsage*,
    textDesc*,particDesc*, settingDesc*, handList*, textClass*)>
    <!ATTLIST profileDesc
          %a.global;>

See further | 5.4 The Profile Description; 5.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components

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