<front>

<front> (front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) found at the start of a document, before the main body. [4.6 Title Pages 4 Default Text Structure]
Moduletextstructure — Default Text Structure
Attributesatt.global (@xml:id, @n, @xml:lang, @xml:base, @xml:space) (att.global.rendition (@rend, @style, @rendition)) (att.global.linking (@corresp, @synch, @sameAs, @copyOf, @next, @prev, @exclude, @select)) (att.global.analytic (@ana)) (att.global.facs (@facs)) (att.global.change (@change)) (att.global.responsibility (@cert, @resp)) att.declaring (@decls)
Contained by
textstructure: floatingText text
transcr: facsimile
May contain
analysis: interp interpGrp span spanGrp
certainty: certainty precision respons
core: cb divGen gap gb head index lb meeting milestone note p pb
drama: castList epilogue performance prologue set
figures: figure notatedMusic
iso-fs: fLib fs fvLib
linking: ab alt altGrp anchor join joinGrp link linkGrp timeline
spoken: incident kinesic pause shift vocal writing
textcrit: app witDetail
textstructure: argument byline closer dateline div div1 docAuthor docDate docEdition docImprint docTitle epigraph postscript salute signed titlePage titlePart trailer
transcr: addSpan damageSpan delSpan fw listTranspose metamark space substJoin
Declaration

<rng:element name="front">
 <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.declaring.attributes"/>
 <rng:group>
  <rng:group>
   <rng:zeroOrMore>
    <rng:choice>
     <rng:ref name="model.frontPart"/>
     <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/>
     <rng:ref name="model.pLike.front"/>
     <rng:ref name="model.global"/>
    </rng:choice>
   </rng:zeroOrMore>
  </rng:group>
  <rng:optional>
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:group>
     <rng:ref name="model.div1Like"/>
     <rng:zeroOrMore>
      <rng:choice>
       <rng:ref name="model.div1Like"/>
       <rng:ref name="model.frontPart"/>
       <rng:ref name="model.global"/>
      </rng:choice>
     </rng:zeroOrMore>
    </rng:group>
    <rng:group>
     <rng:ref name="model.divLike"/>
     <rng:zeroOrMore>
      <rng:choice>
       <rng:ref name="model.divLike"/>
       <rng:ref name="model.frontPart"/>
       <rng:ref name="model.global"/>
      </rng:choice>
     </rng:zeroOrMore>
    </rng:group>
   </rng:choice>
   <rng:group>
    <rng:optional>
     <rng:group>
      <rng:ref name="model.divBottom"/>
     </rng:group>
     <rng:zeroOrMore>
      <rng:choice>
       <rng:ref name="model.divBottom"/>
       <rng:ref name="model.global"/>
      </rng:choice>
     </rng:zeroOrMore>
    </rng:optional>
   </rng:group>
  </rng:optional>
 </rng:group>
</rng:element>
element front
{
   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.declaring.attributes,
   (
      ( ( model.frontPart | model.pLike | model.pLike.front | model.global )* ),
      (
         (
            (
               model.div1Like,
               ( model.div1Like | model.frontPart | model.global )*
            )
          | (
               model.divLike,
               ( model.divLike | model.frontPart | model.global )*
            )
         ),
         ( ( ( model.divBottom ), ( model.divBottom | model.global )* )? )
      )?
   )
}
Example
<front>
 <epigraph>
  <quote>Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
     vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
  <q xml:lang="gr">Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις</q>; respondebat
     illa: <q xml:lang="gr">ὰποθανεῖν θέλω.</q>
  </quote>
 </epigraph>
 <div type="dedication">
  <p>For Ezra Pound <q xml:lang="it">il miglior fabbro.</q>
  </p>
 </div>
</front>
Example
<front>
 <div type="dedication">
  <p>To our three selves</p>
 </div>
 <div type="preface">
  <head>Author's Note</head>
  <p>All the characters in this book are purely imaginary, and if the
     author has used names that may suggest a reference to living persons
     she has done so inadvertently.
     ...</p>
 </div>
</front>
Note

Because cultural conventions differ as to which elements are grouped as front matter and which as back matter, the content models for the front and back elements are identical.