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>.
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| bookmap | ( booklists or notices or dedication or colophon or bookabstract or draftintro or preface or topicref or topichead or topicgroup) (any number) |
| Doctype | Parents |
|---|---|
| bookmap | bookmap |
- map/topicref bookmap/frontmatter
| Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| query | This attribute is deprecated. It may be removed in the future. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
| %topicref-atts; (collection-type, type, scope, locktitle, format, linking, toc, print, search, chunk) | A set of related attributes. See %topicref-atts; and %topicref-atts-no-toc;. | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
| %univ-atts; (%select-atts;, %id-atts;, %localization-atts;) | A set of related attributes, described at %univ-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
| %global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
| class, outputclass, keyref | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes |
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