<book-body>

Body of the Book

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

Remarks

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

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).

Attributes

id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base

Content Model

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

Expanded Content Model

((book-part | xi:include)+)

Description

Any one of:

This element may be contained in:

<book>

Example 

    
<book dtd-version="2.0">  
<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>

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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