Baseline elements of TEI P5

XML elements

Table shows the XML elements of the module core, which are included in the Baseline Encoding.

Table: Elements of the Baseline Encoding (modul core)

Element	Function	Status
<p>	structures information, e.g. within <normalization>	required
<biblStruct>	contains a structured bibliographic citation	required
<monogr>	contains bibliographic elements describing an item (e.g. a book or journal) published as an independent item	required
<title>	contains a title for any kind of work	required
<author>	in a bibliographic reference, contains the name of the author(s), personal or corporate, of a work	optional
<editor>	secondary statement of responsibility for a bibliographic item, for example the name of an individual, institution or organization, (or of several such) acting as editor, compiler, translator, etc.	optional
<imprint>	groups information relating to the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item	required
<pubPlace>	contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published	optional
<publisher>	provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item	optional
<date>	contains a date in any format	optional
<note>	contains a note or annotation	optional

Table shows the XML elements of the module gaiji, which are included in the Baseline Encoding.

Table: Elements of the Baseline Encoding (modul gaiji)

Element	Function	Status
<charDecl>	provides information about nonstandard characters and glyphs <glyph>	optional
<glyph>	references the attribute ref of the element <g>	optional

Table shows the XML elements of the module header, which are included in the Baseline Encoding.

Table: Elements of the Baseline Encoding (modul header)

Element	Function	Status
<teiHeader>	supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an electronic title page prefixed to every TEI-conformant text	required
<fileDesc>	contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file	required
<titleStmt>	groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its intellectual content	required
<publicationStmt>	groups information concerning the publication or distribution of an electronic or other text	required
<authority>	supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for making an electronic file available, other than a publisher or distributor	optional
<idno>	supplies any standard or non-standard number used to identify a bibliographic item (e. g. ISBN, ISSN)	optional
<availability>	supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, etc.	optional
<notesStmt>	collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description	optional
<sourceDesc>	supplies a description of the source text(s) from which an electronic text was derived or generated	required
<encodingDesc>	documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived	required
<editorialDecl>	provides details of editorial principles and practices applied during the encoding of a text	required
<normalization>	indicates the extent of normalization or regularization of the original source carried out in converting it to electronic form	required
<profileDesc>	Container for the element <handNotes>	optional
<handNote>	references the attribute hand of the elements <addSpan> and <delSpan>	optional
<revisionDesc>	summarizes the revision history for a file	optional
<change>	summarizes a particular change or correction made to a particular version of an electronic text which is shared between several researchers	optional

Table shows the XML elements of the module msdescription, which are included in the Baseline Encoding.

Table: Elements of the Baseline Encoding (modul msdescription)

Element	Function	Status
<msDesc>	contains a description of a single identifiable manuscript	optional
<msIdentifier>	contains the information required to identify the manuscript being described, as <repository>	optional
<repository>	contains the name of a repository within which manuscripts are stored, possibly forming part of an institution	optional

Table shows the XML elements of the module namesdates, which are included in the Baseline Encoding.

Table: Elements of the Baseline Encoding (modul namesdates)

Element	Function	Status
<settlement>	contains the name of a settlement such as a city, town, or village identified as a single geo-political or administrative unit	optional
<country>	contains the name of a geo-political unit, such as a nation, country, colony, or commonwealth, larger than or administratively superior to a region and smaller than a bloc	optional

Table shows the XML element <handNotes> of the module transcr, which is included in the Baseline Encoding.

Table: Elements of the Baseline Encoding (modul transcr)

Element	Function	Status
<handNotes>	groups <handNote> elements	optional

XML attributes

The structure of the header is identical for every text in Baseline Encoding, the different kinds of text are differentiated by the value of the attribute type of the element <biblStruct>.
Table lists the attributes of the header elements.

Table: XML attributes of header elemnts in Baseline Encoding

Attribut	Function	Element
type	indicates the kind of text	<biblStruct>
xml:lang	indicates the language of the element	<biblStruct>
type	subtitle	<title>
from	indicates the starting point of the period	<date>
to	indicates the ending point of the period	<date>
notBefore	specifies the earliest possible date for the event	<date>
notAfter	specifies the latest possible date for the event	<date>
period	supplies a pointer to some location defining a named period of time within which the datable item is understood to have occurred	<date>
when	supplies the value of the date or time	<date>
xml:id	provides a unique identifier for the element bearing the attribute	<glyph>
type	categorizes the number, for example as an ISBN or other standard series	<idno>
type	describes the type of note	<note>
xml:id	provides a unique identifier for the element bearing the attribute	<handNote>
who	indicates the person, or group of people, to whom the element content is ascribed	<change>