<TEI>

<TEI> (TEI document) contains a single TEI-conformant document, combining a single TEI header with one or more members of the model.resource class. Multiple TEI elements may be combined within a TEI (or teiCorpus) element. [4. Default Text Structure 15.1. Varieties of Composite Text]
Module textstructure
Attributes Attributes att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source)) att.typed (type)
version specifies the version number of the TEI Guidelines against which this document is valid.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.version
Note
Major editions of the Guidelines have long been informally referred to by a name made up of the letter P (for Proposal) followed by a digit. The current release is one of the many releases of the fifth major edition of the Guidelines, known as P5. This attribute may be used to associate a TEI document with a specific release of the P5 Guidelines, in the absence of a more precise association provided by the source attribute on the associated schemaSpec.
Contained by
textstructure: TEI
May contain
header: teiHeader
linking: standOff
textstructure: TEI text
transcr: facsimile
Note
This element is required. It is customary to specify the TEI namespace http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0 on it, for example: <TEI version="4.4.0" xml:lang="it" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">.
Examples

<TEI version="3.3.0">
   <teiHeader>
      <fileDesc>
         <titleStmt>
            <title>The shortest TEI Document Imaginable</title>
         </titleStmt>
         <publicationStmt>
            <p>First published as part of TEI P2, this is the P5
          version using a namespace.</p>
         </publicationStmt>
         <sourceDesc>
            <p>No source: this is an original work.</p>
         </sourceDesc>
      </fileDesc>
   </teiHeader>
   <text>
      <body>
         <p>This is about the shortest TEI document imaginable.</p>
      </body>
   </text>
</TEI>

<TEI version="2.9.1">
   <teiHeader>
      <fileDesc>
         <titleStmt>
            <title>A TEI Document containing four page images </title>
         </titleStmt>
         <publicationStmt>
            <p>Unpublished demonstration file.</p>
         </publicationStmt>
         <sourceDesc>
            <p>No source: this is an original work.</p>
         </sourceDesc>
      </fileDesc>
   </teiHeader>
   <facsimile>
      <graphic url="page1.png"/>
      <graphic url="page2.png"/>
      <graphic url="page3.png"/>
      <graphic url="page4.png"/>
   </facsimile>
</TEI>
Schematron

<sch:ns prefix="tei" uri="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"/>
<sch:ns prefix="xs" uri="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>

<sch:ns prefix="rng" uri="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"/>
Source Github

<elementSpec module="textstructure" ident="TEI">
   <gloss>TEI document</gloss>
   <desc>contains a single TEI-conformant document, combining
a single TEI header with one or more members of the <ident type="class">model.resource</ident> class. Multiple <gi>TEI</gi>
elements may be combined within a <gi>TEI</gi>  (or <gi>teiCorpus</gi>) element.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
      <memberOf key="att.typed"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <sequence>
         <elementRef key="teiHeader"/>
         <alternate>
            <sequence>
               <classRef key="model.resource" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
               <elementRef key="TEI" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
            </sequence>
            <elementRef key="TEI" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         </alternate>
      </sequence>
   </content>
   <attList>
      <attDef ident="version" usage="opt">
         <desc>specifies the version number of the TEI Guidelines against
  which this document is valid.</desc>
         <datatype>
            <dataRef key="teidata.version"/>
         </datatype>
      </attDef>
   </attList>
</elementSpec>