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The backmatter element

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The backmatter element groups supplementary sections at the end of a document.

Backmatter typically consists of such sections as appendices, glossaries, bibliographies and indices.

Usage Example

        
<body>             
    <frontmatter>
        <section>
            <h>Preface</h>
            …
        </section>
    </frontmatter>
    <bodymatter>
        <section>
            <h>Chapter 1</h>
            …
        </section>
    </bodymatter>
    <backmatter>
        <bibliography>
            <h>Bibliography</h>
            <entry>…</entry>
        </bibliography>
    </backmatter>
</body>

Allowed parents

body

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: bibliography, glossary, index, section and toc

Content model

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
one or more of
any of the 5 elements: bibliography, glossary, index, section and toc

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/