3.2.5.1.19 frontmatter

The <frontmatter> element contains the material that precedes the main body of a document. It may include items such as an abstract, a preface, and various types of book lists such as a <toc>, <tablelist>, or <figurelist>.

Contains

Doctype

Content model

bookmap

(bookabstract or booklists or colophon or dedication or draftintro or notices or preface or topicref or anchorref or keydef or mapref or topicgroup or topichead or topicset or topicsetref) (any number)

learningBookmap

(bookabstract or booklists or colophon or dedication or draftintro or notices or preface or topicref or anchorref or keydef or mapref or topicgroup or topichead or topicset or topicsetref or learningObject or learningGroup) (any number)

Contained by

Doctype

Content model

bookmap, learningBookmap

bookmap

Inheritance

- map/topicref bookmap/frontmatter

Example

See the example in 3.2.5.1.1 bookmap.

Attributes

Name

Description

Data Type

Default Value

Required?

query

This attribute is deprecated. It may be removed in the future.

CDATA

#IMPLIED

No

topicref-atts attribute group (collection-type, processing-role, type, scope, locktitle, format, linking, toc, print, search, chunk)

A set of related attributes. See 3.4.1.8 topicref-atts, topicref-atts-no-toc, and topicref-atts-without-format attribute groups.

     

univ-atts attribute group (includes select-atts, id-atts, and localization-atts groups)

A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.3 univ-atts attribute group

     

global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc)

A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.2 global-atts attribute group

     

class, outputclass, keyref

Class and outputclass are described in 3.4.1.9 Other common DITA attributes

     

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Parent Topic:  3.2.5.1 Bookmap content elements

Sibling Topics:

3.2.5.1.1 bookmap

3.2.5.1.2 abbrevlist

3.2.5.1.3 amendments

3.2.5.1.4 appendices

3.2.5.1.5 appendix

3.2.5.1.6 backmatter

3.2.5.1.7 bibliolist

3.2.5.1.8 bookabstract

3.2.5.1.9 booklibrary

3.2.5.1.10 booklist

3.2.5.1.11 booklists

3.2.5.1.12 booktitle

3.2.5.1.13 booktitlealt

3.2.5.1.14 chapter

3.2.5.1.15 colophon

3.2.5.1.16 dedication

3.2.5.1.17 draftintro

3.2.5.1.18 figurelist

3.2.5.1.20 glossarylist

3.2.5.1.21 indexlist

3.2.5.1.22 mainbooktitle

3.2.5.1.23 notices

3.2.5.1.24 part

3.2.5.1.25 preface

3.2.5.1.26 tablelist

3.2.5.1.27 toc

3.2.5.1.28 trademarklist