2.4 Back matter

   Finally, the "back" element is used for references and appendices:

           ...
           
           
               
                   <reference ...>
                   <reference ...>
               </references>
               <section ...>
               <section ...>
           
       

   The "back" element consists of an optional "references" element, and,
   one or more optional "section" elements. The "back" element itself is
   optional, if your document doesn't have any references or appendices,
   you don't have to include it.

2.4.1 The references Element

   The "references" element contains the document's bibliography. It
   contains one or more "reference" elements.

   Each "reference" element contains a "front" element and one or more
   optional "seriesInfo" elements.

   We've already discussed the "front" element back in Section 2.2.

   The "seriesInfo" element has two attributes, "name" and "value" that
   identify the document series and series entry, respectively.



















 
RFC 2629            Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML            June 1999


   The "reference" element has an optional "anchor" attribute that is
   used for cross-referencing with the "xref" element (Section 2.3.1.4),
   e.g.,

       <reference anchor="refs.RFC2200">
           
               Internet Official Protocol Standards
               <author initials="J." surname="Postel"
                       fullname="Jon Postel">
                   <organization abbrev="ISI">
                   USC/Information Sciences Institute
                   </organization>
               

               <date month="June" year="1997" />
           
           <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2200" />
           <seriesInfo name="STD" value="1" />
       

   The "reference" element also has an optional "target" attribute that
   is used for external references (c.f., Section 2.3.1.5). The XML
   application, if producing an HTML version of the document will use
   the "target" attribute accordingly; however, if the "name" attribute
   of the "seriesInfo" element has the value "RFC", then the XML
   application should automatically provide an appropriate default for
   the "target" attribute (e.g., "http://example.com/rfcs/rfc2200.txt").

2.4.2 Appendices

   To include appendices after the bibliography, simply add more
   "section" elements. (For an example, look at the example at the
   beginning of Section 2.4.)

2.4.3 Copyright Status

   The copyright status for the document is not included in the
   document's markup -- this is automatically inserted by an XML
   application that produces either a text or HTML version of the
   document.