5 TEI Basic Structure
5.1 Empty XML-TEI
The example shown below corresponds to an XML document that follows the TEI model. In the following points we explain the basic structure of a TEI document.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng"
type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<!-- 👆 these are the processing instructions -->
<!-- 👇 Here starts the TEI structure, with the <TEI> element, so called root element -->
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<teiHeader> <!-- 👈 where the metadata goes -->
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>Empty XML File</title>
</titleStmt>
<publicationStmt>
<p>Information about the publication</p>
</publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<p>Information about the source</p>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
</teiHeader>
<text> <!-- 👈 where the actual text goes -->
<body>
<p>Some text here.</p>
</body>
</text>
</TEI>5.2 TEI Basic structure
5.2.1 Root Element <TEI>
5.2.2 <teiHeader>
5.2.3 <text>
5.2.4 <body>
5.3 Quick look up in the TEI
Quick look up in the TEI Guidelines. TEI-Look up