## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <teiHeader>

`<teiHeader>` | (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an ‘electronic title page’ prefixed to every TEI-conformant text.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`type` | specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached.
| Datatype: CDATA

Sample values include:

text | the header is attached to a single text.
corpus | the header is attached to a corpus.

| Default: text

`creator` | identifies the creator of the TEI Header.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: The name or initials of the person or institution responsible for creating this TEI header.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`status` | indicates whether the header is new or has been substantially revised.
| Datatype: (new | update)

Legal values are:

new | the header is a new header.
update | the header is an update (has been revised).

| Default: new
`date.created` | indicates when the first version of the header was created.
| Datatype: %ISO-date;
| Values: A date in ISO 8601 format, generally yyyy-mm-dd.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`date.updated` | indicates when the current version of the header was created.
| Datatype: %ISO-date;
| Values: A date in ISO 8601 format, generally yyyy-mm-dd.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <teiHeader>
      <fileDesc>
    	<titleStmt>
          <title>Shakespeare: the first folio (1623) in electronic form</title>
          <author>Shakespeare, William (1564&ndash;1616)</author>
          <respStmt>
    		<resp>Originally prepared by</resp>
    		<name>Trevor Howard-Hill</name>
          </respStmt>
          <respStmt>
    		<resp>Revised and edited by</resp>
    		<name>Christine Avern-Carr</name> </respStmt> </titleStmt>
        <publicationStmt>
          <distributor>Oxford Text Archive</distributor>
          <address>
    		<addrLine>13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK</addrLine> </address>
          <idno type="OTA">119</idno>
          <availability>
            <p>Freely available on a non-commercial basis.</p>
          </availability>
          <date value="1968">1968</date>
        </publicationStmt>
    	<sourceDesc> <bibl>The first folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman
    		(The Norton Facsimile, 1968)</bibl> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc>
      <encodingDesc>
    	<projectDesc>
    	  <p>Originally prepared for use in the production of a series of
    		old-spelling concordances in 1968, this text was extensively
    		checked and revised for use during the editing of the new Oxford
    		Shakespeare (Wells and Taylor, 1989).</p> </projectDesc>
    	<editorialDecl>
    	  <correction>
    		<p>Turned letters are silently corrected.</p> </correction>
    	  <normalization>
    		<p>Original spelling and typography is retained, except
    		  that long s  and ligatured forms are not encoded.</p> </normalization>
    	</editorialDecl>
    	<refsDecl id="ASLREF">
    	  <step delim=" " from="CHILD (1 div1 n %1)"/>
    	  <step delim="." from="CHILD (1 div2 n %2)"/>
    	  <step from="DESCENDANT (1 lb n %3)"/>
    	</refsDecl> </encodingDesc>
      <revisionDesc>
        <list>
    	  <item><date value="1989-04-12">12 Apr 89</date> Last checked by CAC</item>
    	  <item><date value="1989-03-01">1 Mar 89</date> LB made new file</item>
        </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader>

Note

One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document; the header may also be exchanged as an independent document.

Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain encodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
May occur within TEI.2 teiCorpus.2
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT teiHeader %om.RR; (fileDesc, encodingDesc*, profileDesc*,
    revisionDesc?)>
    <!ATTLIST teiHeader
          %a.global;
          type CDATA "text"
          creator CDATA #IMPLIED
          status (new | update) "new"
          date.created %ISO-date; #IMPLIED
          date.updated %ISO-date; #IMPLIED>

See further 5.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components; 23.1 Varieties of Composite Text

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