CHAPTER 10
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Document Interchange
STRUCTURE TYPE
DESCRIPTION
Art
(Article) A relatively self-contained body of text constituting a single narrative or exposition.
Articles should be disjoint; that is, they should not contain other articles as constituent ele-
ments.
(Section) A container for grouping related content elements. For example, a section might
contain a heading, several introductory paragraphs, and two or more other sections nested
within it as subsections.
(Division) A generic block-level element or group of elements.
(Block quotation) A portion of text consisting of one or more paragraphs attributed to some-
one other than the author of the surrounding text.
(Caption) A brief portion of text describing a table or figure.
(Table of contents) A list made up of table of contents item entries (structure type
TOCI
; see
below) and/or other nested table of contents entries (
TOC
).
A
TOC
entry that includes only
TOCI
entries represents a flat hierarchy. A
TOC
entry that in-
cludes other nested
TOC
entries (and possibly
TOCI
entries) represents a more complex hier-
archy. Ideally, the hierarchy of a top level
TOC
entry reflects the structure of the main body of
the document.
Note:
Lists of figures and tables, as well as bibliographies, can be treated as tables of contents for
purposes of the standard structure types.
Sect
Div
BlockQuote
Caption
TOC
TOCI
(Table of contents item) An individual member of a table of contents. This entry’s children
can be any of the following structure types:
Lbl
Reference
A label (see “List Elements” on page 902)
A reference to the title and the page number (see “Inline-Level Structure
Non-structure elements for wrapping a leader artifact (see “Grouping
Descriptive text (
see
Table of content elements for hierarchical tables of content, as described for
the TOC entry
NonStruct
P
TOC
Index
(Index) A sequence of entries containing identifying text accompanied by reference ele-
ments (structure type
Reference
; see “Inline-Level Structure Elements” on page 905) that
point out occurrences of the specified text in the main body of a document.