`<article>`

The <article> element is a root-level document type for a shorter work than a <book>. An article can have <frontmatter>, sections, and <backmatter>, but it does not contain chapters.

Syntax

Attributes

Attributes for `<article>`
Attribute	Required?	Values
`component = "…"`	optional	`string`
`label = "…"`	optional	`string`
`xml:id = "…"`	optional	`string`
`xml:lang = "…"`	optional	`string`

Children

The following may appear as children: <activity> <algorithm> <aside> <assemblage> <assumption> <axiom> <backmatter> <biographical> <blockquote> <claim> <computation> <conclusion> <conjecture> <console> <convention> <corollary> <data> <definition> <example> <exercise> <exercises> <exploration> <fact> <figure> <fragment> <frontmatter> <glossary> <heuristic> <historical> <hypothesis> <identity> <idx> <image> <insight> <introduction> <investigation> <lemma> <list> <list-of> <listing> <note> <objectives> <observation> <outcomes> <p> <paragraphs> <plaintitle> <poem> <pre> <principle> <problem> <program> <project> <proof> <proposition> <question> <reading-questions> <references> <remark> <sage> <sbsgroup> <section> <shorttitle> <sidebyside> <solutions> <subtitle> <table> <tabular> <technology> <theorem> <title> <video> <warning> <worksheet>

Parents

This element may appear as an immediate child of the following elements: <pretext>

Examples

<article>
    <title>Notes on Counting</title>
    <frontmatter>
        <bibinfo>
            <author><personname>Emmy Noether</personname></author>
        </bibinfo>
        <titlepage><titlepage-items /></titlepage>
    </frontmatter>
    <section>
        <title>Introduction</title>
        <p>We begin with a simple counting argument.</p>
    </section>
</article>

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