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<body> Body of the Document

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

Usage/Remarks

The <body> of an article cannot repeat, but it takes a @specific-use attribute. This attribute should be used to indicate a very unusual article <body>, not the typical tagged narrative content. For example, a <body> could 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.
Related Elements
A journal article (<article>) may be divided into several components:
  1. <processing-meta> (the metadata that concerns the XML file rather than the contents of the document);
  2. <front> (the metadata or header information, which contains both journal metadata [<journal-meta>] and article metadata [<article-meta>]);
  3. <body> (the textual and graphical content of the article);
  4. <back> (any ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix);
  5. <floats-group> (single container element some publishers and archives use to hold all floating elements such as figures and tables that are referenced in the article body or back matter); and
  6. either a series of <response> elements or a series of <sub-article> elements. (A <response> is a commentary on the article itself, such as a summation by an editor, an answer to a letter-article, or words from the author responding to peer-review comments. Sub-articles are articles such as news pieces, abstracts, or committee reports that are completely contained within a main article.)
Attributes
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
Models and Context
May be contained in
<article>, <response>, <sub-article>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  body         %body-model;                                 >
Expanded Content Model

((address | alternatives | answer | answer-set | array | block-alternatives | boxed-text | chem-struct-wrap | code | explanation | fig | fig-group | graphic | media | preformat | question | question-wrap | question-wrap-group | supplementary-material | table-wrap | table-wrap-group | disp-formula | disp-formula-group | def-list | list | tex-math | mml:math | p | related-article | related-object | disp-quote | speech | statement | verse-group)*, (sec)*, sig-block?)

Tagged Sample

Content of a journal article

<article dtd-version="1.3">
 <front>...</front>
 <body>
  <sec sec-type="intro">
   <title>Introduction</title>
   <p>Geriatric day hospitals developed rapidly in the United Kingdom in the 1960s
    as an important component of care provision. The model has since been widely
    applied in several Western countries. Day hospitals provide multidisciplinary
    assessment and rehabilitation in an outpatient setting and have a pivotal
    position between hospital and home based services. Although there is
    considerable descriptive literature on day hospital care,<xref ref-type="bibr"
    rid="B1">1</xref> concern has been expressed that evidence for effectiveness is
    equivocal and that day hospital care is expensive.<xref ref-type="bibr"
    rid="B2">2</xref> We therefore undertook a systematic review of the randomised
    trials of day hospital care.</p>
  </sec>
  <sec sec-type="methods">
   <title>Methods</title>
   <p>The primary question addressed was ...</p>
   <sec>
    <title>Inclusion criteria</title>
    <p>We set out to identify all ...</p>
   </sec>
   <sec>
    <title>Search strategy</title>
    <p>We searched for ...</p>
   </sec>
   ...
  </sec>
  ...
 </body>
 ...
</article>
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