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          CHAPTER 10                                                            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.

Sect             (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.

Div              (Division) A generic block-level element or group of elements.

BlockQuote       (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          (Caption) A brief portion of text describing a table or figure.

TOC              (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.

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           A label (see “List Elements” on page 902)
                    Reference     A reference to the title and the page number (see “Inline-Level Structure
                                  Elements” on page 905)
                    NonStruct     Non-structure elements for wrapping a leader artifact (see “Grouping
                                  Elements” on page 899).
                    P             Descriptive text (see “Paragraphlike Elements” on page 902)
                    TOC           Table of content elements for hierarchical tables of content, as described for
                                  the TOC entry

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.

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