<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 Type of Book Part
id Document Internal Identifier
indexed Indexed
seq Sequence
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language
xmlns:mml MathML Namespace Declaration
xmlns:xlink XLink Namespace Declaration
xmlns:xsi XML Schema Namespace Declaration

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  dedication   %dedication-model;                           >

Expanded Content Model

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

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<back>, <book-back>, <book-part-wrapper>, <front-matter>

Example

    
...
<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>
...