Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<profileDesc>


<profileDesc> (text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting.
Attributes Global attributes only
Example
<profileDesc>
  <langUsage>
    <language wsd="FRA">French</language>
  </langUsage>
  <textDesc n="novel">
    <channel mode="w">print; part issues</channel>
    <constitution type="single"/>
    <derivation type="original"/>
    <domain type="art"/>
    <factuality type="fiction"/>
    <interaction type="none"/>
    <preparedness type="prepared"/>
    <purpose type="entertain" degree="high"/>
    <purpose type="inform" degree="medium"/>
  </textDesc>
  <settingDesc>
    <setting>
     <name>Paris, France</name>
     <time>Late 19th century</time>
    </setting>
  </settingDesc>
</profileDesc>
Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain creation handList langUsage particDesc settingDesc textClass textDesc
May occur within teiHeader
Declaration
<!ELEMENT profileDesc %om.RR;  (creation?, langUsage*, 
textDesc*,particDesc*, settingDesc*, handList*, textClass*)>  
<!ATTLIST profileDesc  
      %a.global;>
See further 5.4 The Profile Description; 5.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components

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