TEI: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

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

<namespace>

<namespace> (namespace) supplies the formal name of the namespace to which the elements documented by its children belong. [2.3.4 The Tagging Declaration]

Module header — The TEI Header

Attributes

att.global
- @xml:id
- @n
- @xml:lang
- @xml:base
- @xml:space
- att.global.analytic
  - @ana
- att.global.change
  - @change
- att.global.facs
  - @facs
- att.global.linking
  - @corresp
  - @synch
  - @sameAs
  - @copyOf
  - @next
  - @prev
  - @exclude
  - @select
- att.global.rendition
  - @rend
  - @style
  - @rendition
- att.global.responsibility
  - @cert
  - @resp
- att.global.source
  - @source

name name⚓︎ specifies the full formal name of the namespace concerned.

Status Required

Datatype 0–1 occurrences of teidata.namespace separated by whitespace

Contained by

header: tagsDecl

May contain

header: tagUsage

Example

<namespace name="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<tagUsage gi="hi" occurs="28" withId="2"> Used only to mark English words
italicized in the copy text </tagUsage>
</namespace>

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Content model

<content>
 <elementRef key="tagUsage" minOccurs="1"
 maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</content>

Schema Declaration

<rng:element name="namespace">
 <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:attribute name="name">
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:ref name="teidata.namespace"/>
 </rng:optional>
 </rng:attribute>
 <rng:oneOrMore>
 <rng:ref name="tagUsage"/>
 </rng:oneOrMore>
</rng:element>

element namespace
{
 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,
 attribute name { teidata.namespace? },
 tagUsage+
}

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TEI Guidelines P5 Version 4.10.2. Last updated on 4th September 2025, revision bcfa98f42. This page generated on 2025年09月04日T16:27:03Z.