DRAFT Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Tag Library Version 0.2 Beta

<book-body>

Body of the Book

Main textual portion of the book that conveys the narrative content.

Remarks

The <body> of a book cannot repeat, but it takes a @specific-use attribute. This attribute could be used to indicate a very unusual book <body>, not the typical tagged narrative content. For example, a <body> might take a @specific-use attribute to indicate that the <body> is an untagged “bag of words” for indexing purposes, the <body> contains just undifferentiated OCR content, or the <body> is (artificially) tagged as a single paragraph which is acting as a text dump.

Attribute

specific-use Specific Use

Related Elements

A BITS <book> may be divided into several components:

  1. the <book-meta> (the bibliographic information about the entire book);
  2. the <front-matter> (the narrative front matter of a book or book part such as a Preface);
  3. the <book-body> (the textual and graphical content of the book); and
  4. any <book-back> (any ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix).

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  book-body    %book-body-model;                            >

Expanded Content Model

((book-part)+)

Description

Any one of:

This element may be contained in:

<book>

Example

          
<book>
  <book-meta>
    ...
  </book-meta>
  <front-matter>
    ...
  </front-matter>
  <book-body>

    <book-part id="bid.1" book-part-type="part">
      <book-part-meta>
        <title-group>
          <label>Part 1</label>
          <title>The Databases</title>
        </title-group>
      </book-part-meta>
      <body>
        <sec id="bid.3">
          <title>History</title>
          <p>Initially, GenBank was built and maintained at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. In the early 1990s, this responsibility was awarded to NCBI through
congressional mandate. ...</p>
          ...
        </sec>
        ...
      </body>
      <back>
        <ref-list>
          ...
        </ref-list>
      </back>
    </book-part>

    <book-part>...
    </book-part>

    <book-part>...
    </book-part>

</book-body>

<book-back>
    ...
  </book-back>

</book>

Module

BITS-book0.dtd

DRAFT Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Tag Library Version 0.2 Beta

Version of October 2012