Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<fileDesc>

<fileDesc> (File Description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.
Attributes Global attributes only
Example 






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






Module
Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled




May contain
editionStmt extent notesStmt publicationStmt seriesStmt sourceDesc titleStmt 




May occur within
teiHeader 




Declaration

<!ELEMENT fileDesc %om.RR; (titleStmt, editionStmt?, extent?,
           publicationStmt, seriesStmt?, notesStmt?,
           sourceDesc+ ) > 
<!ATTLIST fileDesc  
      %a.global;>






See further

5.2 The File Description; 5.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components









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