Schema Documentation - Book Profile
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The cover element

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The cover element represents the complete cover or jacket of a print publication.

Usage Example

<cover>
    <spine>…</spine>
    <frontcover>…</frontcover>
    <backcover>…</backcover>
    <flaps>…</flaps>
</cover>

Allowed parents

body

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: backcover, flaps, frontcover and spine

Content model and additional requirements

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
an optional spine
an optional frontcover
an optional backcover
an optional flaps
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirements:
  • The cover element must contain at least one of its allowed children.
  • The cover element must contain descendant pagebreaks.
Such requirements take precedence over any conflicting statements in the content model or in the lists above of allowed children and parents.

Namespace

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