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# prefaceinfo

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$Date: 2002-06-10 21:20:20 -0400 (Mon, 10 Jun 2002) $

prefaceinfo — Meta-information for a `Preface`

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    prefaceinfo ::=
    ((graphic|mediaobject|legalnotice|modespec|subjectset|keywordset|
      itermset|abbrev|abstract|address|artpagenums|author|authorgroup|
      authorinitials|bibliomisc|biblioset|collab|confgroup|
      contractnum|contractsponsor|copyright|corpauthor|corpname|
      corpcredit|date|edition|editor|invpartnumber|isbn|issn|issuenum|
      orgname|biblioid|citebiblioid|bibliosource|bibliorelation|
      bibliocoverage|othercredit|pagenums|printhistory|productname|
      productnumber|pubdate|publisher|publishername|pubsnumber|
      releaseinfo|revhistory|seriesvolnums|subtitle|title|titleabbrev|
      volumenum|citetitle|personname|honorific|firstname|surname|
      lineage|othername|affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|indexterm)+)

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

The `PrefaceInfo` element is a wrapper for a large collection of meta-information about a `Preface`. Much of this data is bibliographic in nature.

### Processing expectations

Suppressed. Many of the elements in this wrapper may be used in presentation, but they are not generally printed as part of the formatting of the wrapper. It merely serves to identify where they occur.

### Parents

These elements contain prefaceinfo: `preface`.

### Children

The following elements occur in prefaceinfo: `abbrev`, `abstract`, `address`, `affiliation`, `artpagenums`, `author`, `authorblurb`, `authorgroup`, `authorinitials`, `bibliocoverage`, `biblioid`, `bibliomisc`, `bibliorelation`, `biblioset`, `bibliosource`, `citebiblioid`, `citetitle`, `collab`, `confgroup`, `contractnum`, `contractsponsor`, `contrib`, `copyright`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `corpname`, `date`, `edition`, `editor`, `firstname`, `graphic`, `honorific`, `indexterm`, `invpartnumber`, `isbn`, `issn`, `issuenum`, `itermset`, `keywordset`, `legalnotice`, `lineage`, `mediaobject`, `modespec`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `othername`, `pagenums`, `personname`, `printhistory`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `pubdate`, `publisher`, `publishername`, `pubsnumber`, `releaseinfo`, `revhistory`, `seriesvolnums`, `subjectset`, `subtitle`, `surname`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `volumenum`.

## See Also

`appendixinfo`, `articleinfo`, `bibliographyinfo`, `blockinfo`, `bookinfo`, `chapterinfo`, `glossaryinfo`, `indexinfo`, `objectinfo`, `refsynopsisdivinfo`, `screeninfo`, `sect1info`, `sect2info`, `sect3info`, `sect4info`, `sect5info`, `sectioninfo`, `setinfo`.

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