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      Schema Documentation: the frontmatter element
      
   
   
      Schema Documentation - Book Profile
 version 1.0
      
      The frontmatter element
      
      
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               The 
                  frontmatter element groups the initial/preliminary sections of a document.
                  
               
               Frontmatter typically consists of such sections as forewords, prefaces, acknowledgements, introductions, dedications, prologues,
                  and tables of contents.
               
               Frontmatter pages are typically identified by the use of Roman numerals for their numbering, but numbering alone is not a
                  reliable indicator (it is not uncommon for front matter to begin with Arabic number 1, for example). The table of contents
                  may help identify frontmatter sections either through emphasized typeface and/or the use of line breaks between the front,
                  body and back matter sections.
               
            
            Usage Example
        
<body>             
    <frontmatter>
        <section>
            <h>Preface</h>
            …
        </section>
    </frontmatter>
    <bodymatter>
        <section>
            <h>Chapter 1</h>
            …
        </section>
    </bodymatter>
    <backmatter>
        <bibliography>
            <h>Bibliography</h>
            <entry>…</entry>
        </bibliography>
    </backmatter>
</body>        
    
Allowed parents
            body
               
            
            Allowed children
            This element must not contain text.
            
            This element may contain the following children: bibliography, 
               glossary, 
               section and 
               toc
               
            
            Content model
            
               optional attributes: @about, 
                  @by, 
                  @class, 
                  @content, 
                  @datatype, 
                  @desc, 
                  @its:dir, 
                  @its:translate, 
                  @property, 
                  @rel, 
                  @resource, 
                  @rev, 
                  @role, 
                  @sel:selid, 
                  @typeof, 
                  @xml:base, 
                  @xml:id, 
                  @xml:lang and 
                  @xml:space
               one or more of 
                  
                  any of the 4 elements: bibliography, glossary, section and toc
                  
               
            
            Namespace
            http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/