## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <principal>

`<principal>` | (principal researcher) supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the creation of an electronic text.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

    <principal>Gary Taylor</principal>

Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled

May contain

#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref

May occur within | titleStmt

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT principal %om.RO; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST principal
          %a.global;>

See further | 5.2.1 The Title Statement

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