<fileDesc>

<fileDesc> (Dateibeschreibung) enthält die detaillierte bibliografische Beschreibung einer elektronischen Datei. 2.2 The File Description 2.1.1 The TEI Header and its Components
Modul header — 2 The TEI Header
Verwendet von
teiHeader
Kann enthalten
header: editionStmt extent notesStmt publicationStmt seriesStmt sourceDesc titleStmt
Deklaration 

<rng:element name="fileDesc">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.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:optional>
    <rng:ref name="seriesStmt"/>
   </rng:optional>
   <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,
   (
      (
         titleStmt,
         editionStmt?,
         extent?,
         publicationStmt,
         seriesStmt?,
         notesStmt?
      ),
      sourceDesc+
   )
}
Beispiel
<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>