<prolog>

The prolog contains metadata about the topic, for example, author information or subject category.

Content model

( <titlealt> | <navtitle> | <searchtitle> | <linktitle> | <subtitle> | <titlehint> )*, <author> *, <source> ?, <publisher> ?, <copyright> *, <critdates> ?, <permissions> ?, <metadata> *, <resourceid> *, ( <data> | <sort-as> | <foreign> )*

In order
  1. Zero or more
  2. Zero or more <author>
  3. Optional <source>
  4. Optional <publisher>
  5. Zero or more <copyright>
  6. Optional <critdates>
  7. Optional <permissions>
  8. Zero or more <metadata>
  9. Zero or more <resourceid>
  10. Zero or more

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes.

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes.

Example

This section is non-normative.

The following code sample shows a <prolog> element that contains common metadata items:

<prolog>
  <author>Paul Norman</author>
  <copyright>
    <copyryear year="1930"/>
    <copyrholder>Paul Norman</copyrholder>
  </copyright>
</prolog>