TEI: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

P5 Version 4.10.2. Last updated on 4th September 2025, revision bcfa98f42

<fileDesc>

<fileDesc> (file description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file. [2.2 The File Description 2.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components]
Module header — The TEI Header
Attributes
Contained by
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 elsewhere in the header. It also contains a full bibliographic description for the source or sources from which the electronic text was derived.

Example
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>The shortest possible TEI document</title>
</titleStmt>
<publicationStmt>
<p>Distributed as part of TEI P5</p>
</publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<p>No print source exists: this is an original digital text</p>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
Content model
<content>
<sequence>
<sequence>
<elementRef key="titleStmt"/>
<elementRef key="editionStmt"
minOccurs="0"/>

<elementRef key="extent" minOccurs="0"/>
<elementRef key="publicationStmt"/>
<elementRef key="seriesStmt"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

<elementRef key="notesStmt"
minOccurs="0"/>

</sequence>
<elementRef key="sourceDesc"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

</sequence>
</content>
Schema Declaration
<rng:element name="fileDesc">
<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:group>
<rng:group>
<rng:ref name="titleStmt"/>
<rng:optional>
<rng:ref name="editionStmt"/>
</rng:optional>
<rng:optional>
<rng:ref name="extent"/>
</rng:optional>
<rng:ref name="publicationStmt"/>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:ref name="seriesStmt"/>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:optional>
<rng:ref name="notesStmt"/>
</rng:optional>
</rng:group>
<rng:oneOrMore>
<rng:ref name="sourceDesc"/>
</rng:oneOrMore>
</rng:group>
</rng:element>
element fileDesc
{
 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,
 (
 (
 titleStmt,
 editionStmt?,
 extent?,
 publicationStmt,
 seriesStmt*,
 notesStmt?
 ),
 sourceDesc+
 )
}

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