<teiHeader>

<teiHeader> (TEI header) supplies descriptive and declarative metadata associated with a digital resource or set of resources. [2.1.1. The TEI Header and Its Components 15.1. Varieties of Composite Text]
Module header
Attributes Attributes att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source))
Contained by
textstructure: TEI
May contain
header: encodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
Note
One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document.
Examples

<teiHeader>
   <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
         <title>Shakespeare: the first folio (1623) in electronic form</title>
         <author>Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)</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 when="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 xml:id="ASLREF">
         <cRefPattern matchPattern="(\S+) ([^.]+)\.(.*)" replacementPattern="#xpath(//div1[@n='$1']/div2/[@n='$2']//lb[@n='$3'])">
            <p>A reference is created by assembling the following, in the reverse order as that
            listed here: <list>
                  <item>the <att>n</att> value of the preceding <gi>lb</gi>
                  </item>
                  <item>a period</item>
                  <item>the <att>n</att> value of the ancestor <gi>div2</gi>
                  </item>
                  <item>a space</item>
                  <item>the <att>n</att> value of the parent <gi>div1</gi>
                  </item>
               </list>
            </p>
         </cRefPattern>
      </refsDecl>
   </encodingDesc>
   <revisionDesc>
      <list>
         <item>
            <date when="1989-04-12">12 Apr 89</date> Last checked by CAC</item>
         <item>
            <date when="1989-03-01">1 Mar 89</date> LB made new file</item>
      </list>
   </revisionDesc>
</teiHeader>
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<elementSpec module="header" ident="teiHeader">
   <gloss>TEI header</gloss>
   <desc>supplies descriptive and
declarative metadata associated with a digital resource or set of
resources.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <sequence>
         <elementRef key="fileDesc"/>
         <classRef key="model.teiHeaderPart" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         <elementRef key="revisionDesc" minOccurs="0"/>
      </sequence>
   </content>
</elementSpec>