## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <fileDesc>

`<fileDesc>` | (File Description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

Note

The major source of information for those seeking to create a catalogue entry or bibliographic citation for an electronic file. As such, it provides a title and statements of responsibility together with details of the publication or distribution of the file, of any series to which it belongs, and detailed bibliographic notes for matters not addressed elswhere in the header. It also contains a full bibliographic description for the source or sources from which the electronic text was derived.

Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain | editionStmt extent notesStmt publicationStmt seriesStmt sourceDesc titleStmt
May occur within | teiHeader

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT fileDesc %om.RR; (titleStmt, editionStmt?, extent?,
               publicationStmt, seriesStmt?, notesStmt?,
               sourceDesc+ ) >
    <!ATTLIST fileDesc
          %a.global;>

See further | 5.2 The File Description; 5.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components

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