<teiHeader>

TEI header

supplies descriptive and declarative metadata associated with a digital resource or set of resources.

Module headerHD11 CCDEF

Attributes

Classes and content

May contain

header

Contained by

core

teiCorpus

textstructure

Note

One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document.

Example

<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>

Content model

<content>
    <sequence>
      <elementRef key="fileDesc"/>
      <classRef key="model.teiHeaderPart" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <elementRef key="revisionDesc" minOccurs="0"/>
    </sequence>
  </content>