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<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
AttributesAttributes att.global (@xml:id, @n, @xml:lang, @xml:base, @xml:space) (att.global.rendition (@rend, @rendition)) (att.global.responsibility (@cert, @resp))
Contained by
textstructure: text
May contain
core: gap head lb note p
figures: figure
textstructure: div
Declaration
element front
{
   ( ( 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 )* )? )
   )?
}
Schematron

<sch:rule context="tei:front">
<sch:assert test="tei:div[@type='abstract']">
 <sch:name/> must have an abstract (div[@type='abstract']).
</sch:assert></sch:rule>
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.