7.4. Element body

Specifies the content of a book division (part, chapter, section, etc).

When the parent of body is element book then body specifies the content of the “title page” of the book.

It's possible for a book division to have both an href attribute and a body child element. In such case, the content “pulled” using the href attribute is inserted before the content specified by the body child element.

Content model

content+

Attributes

Name Data type Default value
xml:base anyURI  
xml:id ID  
xml:lang language or "" (the empty string) .

Other attributes: XHTML5 global attributes, including any attribute having a name starting with "data-".

Parents

The following elements contain body: appendices, appendix, book, chapter, part, section.

Children

The following elements occur in body: content.

Example

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<chapter>
  <head>
    <title>Using Widget</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <content href="using1.html"/>
    <content href="using2.html"/>
  </body>
</chapter>