## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <back>

`<back>` | (back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from declaring

Example

    <back>
       <div1 type="appendix">
          <head>The Golden Dream or, the Ingenuous Confession</head>
          <p>To shew the Depravity of human Nature
              <!-- ... -->
          </p>
       </div1>
       <div1 type="epistle">
          <head>A letter from the Printer, which he desires
            may be inserted</head>
          <salute>Sir.</salute>
          <p>I have done with your Copy, so you may return
              it to the Vatican, if you please
              <!-- ... -->
          </p>
       </div1>
       <div1 type="advert">
          <head>The Books usually read by the Scholars
           of Mrs Two-Shoes are these and are sold at Mr
           Newbery's at the Bible and Sun in St Paul's
           Church-yard.</head>
          <list>
             <item n="1">The Christmas Box, Price 1d.</item>
             <item n="2">The History of Giles Gingerbread, 1d.</item>
              <!-- ... -->
             <item n="42">A Curious Collection of Travels, selected
              from the Writers of all Nations, 10 Vol, Pr. bound 1l.</item>
          </list>
       </div1>
       <div1 type="advert">
          <head><hi rend="center">By the KING's Royal Patent,</hi>
             Are sold by J. NEWBERY, at the Bible and Sun in
             St. Paul's Church-Yard.</head>
          <list>
             <item n="1">Dr. James's Powders for Fevers, the
               Small-Pox, Measles, Colds, &amp;c. 2s. 6d</item>
             <item n="2">Dr. Hooper's Female Pills, 1s.</item>
                <!-- ... -->
          </list>
       </div1>
    </back>

Note | The content model of back matter is identical to that of front matter, reflecting the facts of cultural history.
Module | Declared in file teiback2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class | declaring
May contain | addSpan alt altGrp anchor argument byline castList cb certainty closer dateline delSpan div div1 divGen docAuthor docDate epigraph epilogue fLib fs fsLib fvLib fw gap head index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lb link linkGrp milestone opener pb performance prologue respons salute set signed span spanGrp timeline titlePage trailer
May occur within | text

Declaration

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

See further | 7.6 Back Matter; 7 Default Text Structure

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