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<fileDesc>

file description

contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.

Module headerHD2HD11

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source

Classes and content

May contain

header

Contained by

header

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 elsewhere in the header. It also contains a full bibliographic description for the source or sources from which the electronic text was derived.

Example

<fileDesc>
  <titleStmt>
    <title>The shortest possible TEI document</title>
  </titleStmt>
  <publicationStmt>
    <p>Distributed as part of TEI P5</p>
  </publicationStmt>
  <sourceDesc>
    <p>No print source exists: this is an original digital text</p>
  </sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>

Content model

<content>
    <sequence>
      <sequence>
        <elementRef key="titleStmt"/>
        
          <elementRef key="editionStmt" minOccurs="0"/>
        
        
          <elementRef key="extent" minOccurs="0"/>
        
        <elementRef key="publicationStmt"/>
        
          <elementRef key="seriesStmt" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
        
        
          <elementRef key="notesStmt" minOccurs="0"/>
        
      </sequence>
      
        <elementRef key="sourceDesc" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      
    </sequence>
  </content>