<teiHeader>

<teiHeader> (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an electronic title page prefixed to every TEI-conformant text. 2.1.1 The TEI Header and its Components 15.1 Varieties of Composite Text
Moduleheader — 2 The TEI Header
AttributesIn addition to global attributes
typespecifies the kind of document to which the header is attached, for example whether it is a corpus or individual text.
Status Optional
Datatype 

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>
data.enumerated
Sample values include:
text
the header is attached to a single text. [Default]
corpus
the header is attached to a corpus.
Used byTEI teiCorpus
May contain
header: encodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
Declaration

<rng:element name="teiHeader">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:optional>
 <rng:attribute name="type" a:defaultValue="text">
  <rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>
 </rng:attribute>
</rng:optional>
<rng:group>
 <rng:ref name="fileDesc"/>
 <rng:zeroOrMore>
  <rng:ref name="model.headerPart"/>
 </rng:zeroOrMore>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:ref name="revisionDesc"/>
 </rng:optional>
</rng:group>
</rng:element>
element teiHeader
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute type { data.enumerated }?,
   ( fileDesc, model.headerPart*, revisionDesc? )
}
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>
Note
One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document.