Schema Documentation - Generic Document Profile
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The section variant of the section element

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The section element represents a structural division of a document.

A structural division is defined as any grouping of content that has significance to the hierarchy of the document, which can include major divisions like parts, sections, chapters, etc. or minor divisions like author biographies.

Usage Example

<section role="chapter">
    <h>
        <hpart>CHAPTER I.</hpart>
        <hpart>VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION.</hpart>
    </h>
    <p>…</p>
</section>

Allowed parents

aside, body and section

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: address, annotation, aside (block variant), aside (section variant), bibliography, block, ssml:break, caption, citation, code, description, d:description, glossary (block variant), glossary (section variant), xforms:group, h, hd, index, list, m:math, note, object, p, pagebreak, quote, xforms:repeat, section, sel:select, table, toc (block variant), toc (section variant), transition and verse

Content model

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @depth, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
a choice of
either
a mix of
• h
• zero or more of pagebreak
end of mix
or
first a mix of
• an optional h
• one or more of
any of the 25 elements: address, annotation, aside, block, caption, citation, code, d:description, description, glossary, hd, list, m:math, note, object, p, quote, sel:select, ssml:break, table, toc, transition, verse, xforms:group and xforms:repeat
• zero or more of pagebreak
end of mix
followed by a mix of
• zero or more of
any of the 6 elements: aside, bibliography, glossary, index, section and toc
• zero or more of pagebreak
end of mix
or
first a mix of
• an optional h
• zero or more of pagebreak
end of mix
followed by a mix of
• one or more of
any of the 6 elements: aside, bibliography, glossary, index, section and toc
• zero or more of pagebreak
end of mix
end of choice

Variants

This element exists in 6 variants. The other 5 variants are:

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/