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<dedication> Dedication

A named book component that contains text dedicating the book in some fashion.
Note: A publisher could choose to call this component just another <front-matter-part>, but many publishers specifically identify dedications, so this element was included in the BITS Tag Set.
Attributes
book-part-type
indexed
seq
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang

Namespaces

xmlns:mml (fixed value = http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML)
xmlns:xlink (fixed value = http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink)
xmlns:xsi (fixed value = http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)
Models and Context
May be contained in
<back>, <book-back>, <book-part-wrapper>, <front-matter>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  dedication   %dedication-model;                           >
Expanded Content Model

(book-part-meta?, named-book-part-body?, back?)

Tagged Sample

In book front matter

...
<front-matter>
 <dedication>
  <book-part-meta>
   <title-group>
    <title>Dedication</title>
   </title-group>
  </book-part-meta>
  <named-book-part-body>
   <p>We dedicate this book to our esteemed professor
    emeritus, Dr. Robert Jemmings, whose critique of
    the underlying study identified potential bias in
    the analysis and strengthened our argument.</p>
  </named-book-part-body>
 </dedication>
</front-matter>
...
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