<teiHeader> (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an ``electronic title page'' prefixed to every TEI-conformant text.
Attributes:
type specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached.
Datatype: CDATA
Legal values:
text the header is attached to a single text.
corpus the header is attached to a corpus.
Default: text
creator identifies the creator of the TEI Header.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: The name or initials of the person or institution responsible for creating this TEI header.
Default: #IMPLIED
status indicates whether the header is new or has been substantially revised.
Datatype: (new | update)
Legal values:
new the header is a new header.
update the header is an update (has been revised).
Default: new
date.created indicates when the first version of the header was created.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: A date in any recognizable form.
Default: #IMPLIED
date.updated indicates when the current version of the header was created.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: A date in any recognizable form.
Default: #IMPLIED
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>
   <publicationStmt>
      <distributor>Oxford Text Archive</distributor>
      <address><addrLine>13 Banbury Road,</addrLine>
               <addrLine>Oxford OX2 6NN,</addrLine>
               <addrLine>UK</addrLine></address>
      <idno>OTA number 119</idno>
      <availability><p>Freely available on a non-commercial basis.</availability>
      <date>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).
   <editorialDecl>
    <correction>
    <p>Turned letters are silently corrected.
    <normalization>
    <p>Original spelling and typography is retained, except that long s
      and ligatured forms are not encoded.
   </editorialDecl>
   <refsDecl id=ASLref>
      <step from="child (1 div1 n %1)" delim =" ">
      <step from="child (1 div2 n %2)" delim =" ">
   </refsDecl>
</encodingDesc>
<revisionDesc>
    <change><date>12 Apr 89</date>
        <respStmt><resp>ed</resp><name>CAC</name></respStmt>
        <item>Last checked</item></change>
    <change>
      <date>1 Mar 89</date>
      <respStmt><resp>draft</resp><name>LB</name></respStmt>
      <item>Made new file</item></change>
</revisionDesc>
</teiHeader>
Note

One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document; the header may also be exchanged as an independent document.

Tagsetauxiliary tag set for TEI headers
Class
Filenameteihdr2
Content:
ParentsTEI.2 ihs teiCorpus.2 teiFsd2
ChildrenencodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
Declaration
<!ELEMENT teiHeader     - -  (fileDesc, encodingDesc*, 
                             profileDesc*, revisionDesc?)       >
<!ATTLIST teiHeader          %a.global
          type               CDATA               text
          creator            CDATA               #IMPLIED
          status             (new | update)      new
          date.created       CDATA               #IMPLIED
          date.updated       CDATA               #IMPLIED       >
See 5.1.1 ; 23.1

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