## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <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.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from declaring

Example

    <front>
      <div lang="LA" type="epigraph">
    	<quote>Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
    	  vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
    	  <q lang="GRC">Sibylla ti weleis</q>; respondebat
    	  illa: <q lang="GRC">apowanein welo.</q></quote></div>
      <div type="dedication">
    	<p>For Ezra Pound <q 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>

Module | Declared in file teifron2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class | declaring
May contain | addSpan alt altGrp anchor argument byline castList cb certainty delSpan div div1 divGen docAuthor docDate docEdition docImprint docTitle epigraph epilogue fLib fs fsLib fvLib fw gap head index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lb link linkGrp milestone pb performance prologue respons set span spanGrp timeline titlePage titlePart
May occur within | text

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT front %om.RO; (  (%m.front; | %m.Incl;)*,
                     (( (%m.fmchunk;), (%m.fmchunk; | titlePage | %m.Incl;)*)
                      | ( div, (div | %m.front; | %m.Incl;)* )
                      | ( div1, (div1 | %m.front; | %m.Incl; )*))?) >
    <!ATTLIST front
          %a.global;
          %a.declaring;>

See further | 7.5 Title Pages; 7 Default Text Structure

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