Book and Collection Tag Library version 3.0

<body>

Body of the Book

The main textual portion of the book, or a book component such as a chapter, that conveys the content

Related Elements

A book <book> may be divided into four parts:

  1. the <book-meta> (the book metadata or header information);
  2. the <book-front> (textual material that precedes the actual contents of a book, for example, author biographical information or a preface);
  3. the <body> (textual and graphical content of the book); and
  4. any <back> (ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix).

A book collection <collection> may be divided into four parts:

  1. the <collection-meta> (the metadata or header information for a collection);
  2. the <book-front> (textual material that precedes the actual contents of a collection, for example, author biographical information or a preface);
  3. the <body> (textual and graphical content for the collection, typically providing summaries of the books in the collection); and
  4. any <back> (ancillary information from the collection’s books, such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix).

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  body         %body-model;                                 >

Expanded Content Model

((address | alternatives | array | boxed-text | chem-struct-wrap | 
fig | fig-group | graphic | map-group | media | preformat | 
supplementary-material | table-wrap | table-wrap-group | 
disp-formula | disp-formula-group | p | def-list | list | 
tex-math | mml:math | related-article | related-object | 
ack | disp-quote | speech | statement | verse-group)*, 
(sec)*, (book-part)*, back?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<book>, <book-part>, <collection>

Example

<book>
<book-meta>...</book-meta>
<book-front>...</book-front>
<body>
<book-part id="bid.2" book-part-type="chapter" book-part-number="1">
<book-part-meta>...</book-part-meta>
<body>
<sec id="bid.3">
<title>History</title>
<p>Initially, GenBank was built and maintained at Los Alamos National 
Laboratory (<xref ref-type="kwd" rid="bid.41">LANL</xref>). In the 
early 1990s, this responsibility was awarded to NCBI through ...</p>
</sec>
<sec id="bid.4">
<title>International Collaboration</title>
<p>In the mid-1990s, the GenBank database became part of the International 
Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration with the EMBL database ...</p>
</sec>
</body>
<back>...</back>
</book-part>
</body>
</book>

Module

bookandcoll-for-taglib3.dtd

Book and Collection Tag Library version 3.0

Version of November 2008