<profileDesc>

<profileDesc> (description du profil) fournit une description détaillée des aspects non bibliographiques du texte, notamment les langues utilisées et leurs variantes, les circonstances de sa production, les collaborateurs et leur statut. [2.4 The Profile Description 2.1.1 The TEI Header and Its Components]
Module header — The TEI Header
Attributs
Membre du
model.teiHeaderPart
Contenu dans
header: biblFull teiHeader
Peut contenir
corpus: particDesc settingDesc textDesc
header: abstract calendarDesc correspDesc creation langUsage textClass
transcr: handNotes listTranspose
Note

Although the content model permits it, it is rarely meaningful to supply multiple occurrences for any of the child elements of profileDesc unless these are documenting multiple texts.
Exemple
<profileDesc>
 <langUsage>
  <language ident="fr">français</language>
 </langUsage>
 <textDesc n="roman">
  <channel mode="w">copie; extraits </channel>
  <constitution type="single"/>
  <derivation type="original"/>
  <domain type="art"/>
  <factuality type="fiction"/>
  <interaction type="none"/>
  <preparedness type="prepare"/>
  <purpose type="distraction" degree="high"/>
  <purpose type="information"
   degree="medium"/>
 </textDesc>
 <settingDesc>
  <setting>
   <name>Paris, France</name>
   <time>Fin 19e</time>
  </setting>
 </settingDesc>
</profileDesc>
Modèle de contenu 
<content>
 <classRef key="model.profileDescPart"
  minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</content>
Schéma Declaration 
<rng:element name="profileDesc">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:zeroOrMore>
  <rng:ref name="model.profileDescPart"/>
 </rng:zeroOrMore>
</rng:element>
element profileDesc
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   model.profileDescPart*
}