mei:meiHead 

(MEI header) – Supplies the descriptive and declarative metadata prefixed to
every MEI-conformant text.

Element Information

Model

mei:altId* , mei:fileDesc , mei:encodingDesc{0,1} , mei:workDesc{0,1} , mei:extMeta* , mei:revisionDesc{0,1}
Children: mei:altId, mei:encodingDesc, mei:extMeta, mei:fileDesc, mei:revisionDesc, mei:workDesc

Attributes

QName Type Fixed Default Use Inheritable Annotation
analog xs:string optional 
Contains a reference to a field or element in another descriptive encoding
system to which this MEI element is comparable.
label xs:string optional 
Provides a name or label for an element. The value may be any
string.
meiversion restriction of xs:token 3.0.0 optional 
Specifies a generic MEI version label.
n optional 
Provides a number-like designation for an element.
translit xs:NMTOKEN optional 
Specifies the transliteration technique used.
type restriction of xs:token optional 
Specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached, for
example whether it is a corpus or individual text.
xml:base mei:mei_data.URI optional 
Provides a base URI reference with which applications can resolve relative
URI references into absolute URI references.
xml:id xs:ID optional 
Regularizes the naming of an element and thus facilitates building links
between it and other resources. Each id attribute within a document must have a unique
value.
xml:lang xs:language optional 
Identifies the language of the element's content. The values for this
attribute are language 'tags' as defined in BCP 47. All language tags that make use of
private use sub-tags must be documented in a corresponding language element in the MEI
header whose id attribute is the same as the language tag's value.

Used By

Elements mei:mei, mei:meiCorpus

Source 

<xs:element name="meiHead">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation>(MEI header) – Supplies the descriptive and declarative metadata prefixed to every MEI-conformant text.</xs:documentation>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="mei:altId"/>
      <xs:element ref="mei:fileDesc"/>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="mei:encodingDesc"/>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="mei:workDesc"/>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="mei:extMeta"/>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="mei:revisionDesc"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.bibl.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.common.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.lang.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.meiversion.attributes"/>
    <xs:attribute name="type">
      <xs:annotation>
        <xs:documentation>Specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached, for example whether it is a corpus or individual text.</xs:documentation>
      </xs:annotation>
      <xs:simpleType>
        <xs:restriction base="xs:token">
          <xs:enumeration value="music">
            <xs:annotation>
              <xs:documentation>Header is attached to a music document.</xs:documentation>
            </xs:annotation>
          </xs:enumeration>
          <xs:enumeration value="corpus">
            <xs:annotation>
              <xs:documentation>Header is attached to a corpus.</xs:documentation>
            </xs:annotation>
          </xs:enumeration>
        </xs:restriction>
      </xs:simpleType>
    </xs:attribute>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Sample