<TEI>

<TEI> (TEI document) contains a single TEI-conformant document, combining a single TEI header with one or more members of the model.resource class. Multiple TEI elements may be combined within a TEI (or teiCorpus) element. [4 Default Text Structure 16.1 Varieties of Composite Text]
Module textstructure — Default Text Structure
Attributes
version⚓︎ specifies the version number of the TEI Guidelines against which this document is valid.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.version
Note

Major editions of the Guidelines have long been informally referred to by a name made up of the letter P (for Proposal) followed by a digit. The current release is one of the many releases of the fifth major edition of the Guidelines, known as P5. This attribute may be used to associate a TEI document with a specific release of the P5 Guidelines, in the absence of a more precise association provided by the source attribute on the associated schemaSpec.
Member of
model.describedResource
Contained by
core: teiCorpus
textstructure: TEI
May contain
header: teiHeader
iso-fs: fsdDecl
linking: standOff
textstructure: TEI text
transcr: facsimile sourceDoc
Note

As with all elements in the TEI scheme (except egXML) this element is in the TEI namespace (see Namespaces). Thus, when it is used as the outermost element of a TEI document, it is necessary to specify the TEI namespace on it. This is customarily achieved by including http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0 as the value of the XML namespace declaration (xmlns), without indicating a prefix, and then not using a prefix on TEI elements in the rest of the document. For example: <TEI version="4.8.1" xml:lang="it" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">.
Example
<TEI version="3.3.0" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
 <teiHeader>
  <fileDesc>
   <titleStmt>
    <title>The shortest TEI Document Imaginable</title>
   </titleStmt>
   <publicationStmt>
    <p>First published as part of TEI P2, this is the P5
         version using a namespace.</p>
   </publicationStmt>
   <sourceDesc>
    <p>No source: this is an original work.</p>
   </sourceDesc>
  </fileDesc>
 </teiHeader>
 <text>
  <body>
   <p>This is about the shortest TEI document imaginable.</p>
  </body>
 </text>
</TEI>
Example
<TEI version="2.9.1" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
 <teiHeader>
  <fileDesc>
   <titleStmt>
    <title>A TEI Document containing four page images </title>
   </titleStmt>
   <publicationStmt>
    <p>Unpublished demonstration file.</p>
   </publicationStmt>
   <sourceDesc>
    <p>No source: this is an original work.</p>
   </sourceDesc>
  </fileDesc>
 </teiHeader>
 <facsimile>
  <graphic url="page1.png"/>
  <graphic url="page2.png"/>
  <graphic url="page3.png"/>
  <graphic url="page4.png"/>
 </facsimile>
</TEI>
Content model 
<content>
 <sequence>
  <elementRef key="teiHeader"/>
  <alternate>
   <sequence>
    <classRef key="model.resource"
     minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <elementRef key="TEI" minOccurs="0"
     maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
   </sequence>
   <elementRef key="TEI" minOccurs="1"
    maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
  </alternate>
 </sequence>
</content>
Schema Declaration 
<rng:element name="TEI">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.typed.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="version">
   <rng:ref name="teidata.version"/>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:group>
  <rng:ref name="teiHeader"/>
  <rng:choice>
   <rng:group>
    <rng:oneOrMore>
     <rng:ref name="model.resource"/>
    </rng:oneOrMore>
    <rng:zeroOrMore>
     <rng:ref name="TEI"/>
    </rng:zeroOrMore>
   </rng:group>
   <rng:oneOrMore>
    <rng:ref name="TEI"/>
   </rng:oneOrMore>
  </rng:choice>
 </rng:group>
</rng:element>
element TEI
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   att.typed.attributes,
   attribute version { teidata.version }?,
   ( teiHeader, ( ( model.resource+, TEI* ) | TEI+ ) )
}