<keyword ...>
               <keyword ...>
               <abstract ...>
               
           
           ...
       

   (Note that in all examples, indentation is used only for expository
   purposes.)

   The "front" element consists of a "title" element, one or more
   "author" elements, a "date" element, one or more optional "area"
   elements, one or more optional "workgroup" elements, one or more
   optional "keyword" elements, an optional "abstract" element. and, one
   or more optional "note" elements.

2.2.1 The title Element

   The "title" element identifies the title of the document. Because the
   title will be used in the headers of the document when formatted
   according to [2], if the title is more than 42 characters, then an
   abbreviation should also be provided, e.g.,

       <title abbrev="Much Ado about Nothing">
       The IETF's Discussion on "Source Format of RFC Documents"
       











 
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2.2.2 The author Element

   Each "author" element identifies a document author. Since a document
   may have more than one author, more than one "author" element may be
   present. If the author is a person, then three attributes must be
   present in the "" tag, "initials", "surname", and
   "fullname", e.g.,

       <author initials="M.T." surname="Rose"
               fullname="Marshall T. Rose">

   The "author" element itself consists of an "organization" element,
   and, an optional "address" element.

   The "organization" element is similar to the "title" element, in that
   an abbreviation may be paired with a long organization name using the
   "abbrev" attribute, e.g.,

       <organization abbrev="ISI">
           USC/Information Sciences Institute
       </organization>

   The "address" element consists of an optional "postal" element, an
   optional "phone" element, an optional "facsimile" element, an
   optional "email" element, and, an optional "uri" element.

   The "postal" element contains one or more "street" elements, followed
   by any combination of "city", "region" (state or province), "code"
   (zipcode or postal code), and "country" elements, e.g.,

       
           660 York Street
           M/S 40
           San Francisco CA
           94110
           US
       

   This flexibility is provided to allow for different national formats
   for postal addresses. Note however, that although the order of the
   "city", "region", "code", and "country" elements isn't specified, at
   most one of each may be present. Regardless, these elements must not
   be re-ordered during processing by an XML application (e.g., display
   applications must preserve the ordering of the information contained
   in these elements). Finally, the value of the "country" element
   should be a two-letter code from ISO 3166.






 
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   The "phone", "facsimile", "email", and "uri" elements are simple,
   e.g.,