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
note
These models represent only the default document types distributed by OASIS.
Actual content models will differ with each new document type.
| 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 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 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 univ-atts attribute group | |||
| global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described in global-atts attribute group | |||
| class, outputclass, keyref | Keyref provides a redirectable reference based on a key defined within a map. See The keyref attribute for information on using this attribute. Class and outputclass are described in Other common DITA attributes |