Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<teiHeader>

<teiHeader> (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an ‘electronic title page’ prefixed to every TEI-conformant text.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes)
type specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached.
Datatype: CDATA
Sample values include:
text the header is attached to a single text.
corpus the header is attached to a corpus.
Default: text
creator identifies the creator of the TEI Header.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: The name or initials of the person or institution responsible for creating this TEI header.
Default: #IMPLIED
status indicates whether the header is new or has been substantially revised.
Datatype: (new | update)
Legal values are:
new the header is a new header.
update the header is an update (has been revised).
Default: new
date.created indicates when the first version of the header was created.
Datatype: %ISO-date;
Values: A date in ISO 8601 format, generally yyyy-mm-dd.
Default: #IMPLIED
date.updated indicates when the current version of the header was created.
Datatype: %ISO-date;
Values: A date in ISO 8601 format, generally yyyy-mm-dd.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example 
<teiHeader>
  <fileDesc>
	<titleStmt>
      <title>Shakespeare: the first folio (1623) in electronic form</title>
      <author>Shakespeare, William (1564&ndash;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 value="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 id="ASLREF">
	  <step delim=" " from="CHILD (1 div1 n %1)"/>
	  <step delim="." from="CHILD (1 div2 n %2)"/>
	  <step from="DESCENDANT (1 lb n %3)"/>
	</refsDecl> </encodingDesc>
  <revisionDesc>
    <list>
	  <item><date value="1989-04-12">12 Apr 89</date> Last checked by CAC</item>
	  <item><date value="1989-03-01">1 Mar 89</date> LB made new file</item>
    </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader>
Note

One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document; the header may also be exchanged as an independent document.
Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain encodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
May occur within TEI.2 teiCorpus.2
Declaration 
<!ELEMENT teiHeader %om.RR; (fileDesc, encodingDesc*, profileDesc*, 
revisionDesc?)>  
<!ATTLIST teiHeader  
      %a.global;
      type CDATA "text"
      creator CDATA #IMPLIED
      status (new | update) "new"
      date.created %ISO-date; #IMPLIED
      date.updated %ISO-date; #IMPLIED>
See further 5.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components; 23.1 Varieties of Composite Text

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