Identifies the semantic content of a section, where that is known, for example, a section on “Materials” or a “Conclusions”
This attribute is typically provided as part of conversion when the semantic information is explicit in the source documents. Although designed to accept any text as its value, for best practice, this attribute should be used only if the section is one of the types listed below and should otherwise be omitted. This is a way to provide information classing to structural sections, for searching and grouping purposes.
A section that contains content of more than one type should have the type IDs combined (e.g., “Materials and Methods” would be tagged “type="materials|methods"”).
This attribute can also be used to mark a section as the equivalent of the Link Group element in NLM's previous NCBI Book DTD, i.e., a section tagged <sec sec-type="multi-link">could serve as the container for certain groups of links.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Text, numbers, or special characters | Names the main semantic type of section content. This attribute may take any value, but is really only meaningful when a list of values is maintained and books are tagged accordingly. See the list of suggested values such as “conclusions” below. |
| Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used. | |
Recommended section type values are:
|
cases |
Cases/Case Reports |
|
conclusions |
Conclusions/Comment |
|
discussion |
Discussion/Interpretation |
|
intro |
Introduction/Synopsis |
|
materials |
Materials |
|
methods |
Methods/Methodology/Procedures |
|
multi-link |
Section containing external links for specialized processing |
|
results |
Results/Statement of Findings |
|
subjects |
Subjects/Participants/Patients |