PRINCIPAL

   (i.e. principal researcher)
  Description:  supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible
        for the creation of an electronic text.
  Attributes:  [None:  global and inherited attributes only.]
  Example:
               <principal>Gary Taylor
  Part:  auxiliary tag set for TEI headers
  Member of classes:
  DTD file:  teihdr2
  Data description:
  May occur within:  titleStmt
  May contain:  #PCDATA abbr add address anchor att c caesura cl corr date
        dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula gap
        gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num orig
        oRef oVar phr ptr pRef pVar ref reg rs s seg sic soCalled tag term
        time timeRange timeStruct title val w xptr xref
  Declaration:
       <!ELEMENT principal     - O  (%phrase.seq;)                     >
       <!ATTLIST principal          %a.global                          >
  Discussed in 5.2.1, "The Title Statement," on page 7.
  This tag is mandatory when applicable.

Content

• #PCDATA
• abbr
• add
• address
• anchor
• code
• corr
• date
• del
• emph
• foreign
• formula
• gap
• gi
• gloss
• hi
• ident
• kw
• mentioned
• name
• num
• orig
• ptr
• ref
• reg
• rs
• s
• seg
• sic
• socalled
• term
• time
• title
• unclear
• xptr
• xref

Tag Minimization

Open Tag: REQUIRED
Close Tag: OPTIONAL

Parent Elements

• titlestmt