OUP BITS TCI

 

Root element and schema declaration

Use the root element book for whole books and book-part-wrapper for chapters or articles when required by OUP.

/book
/book-part-wrapper

Give the XML a DOCTYPE declaration as shown in the examples below.

Give the root element a xml:lang attribute with a single value, lower-case code from the IANA language subtag type list.

The language code defined at the root level applies to any element that does not have a different language code specified at the element level, and whose ancestors also do not specify a different language code. See element-level language for a list of elements that accept a different language code.

Book root element with DOCTYPE declaration

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD BITS Book Interchange DTD with OASIS and XHTML Tables v2.1 20220202//EN" "BITS-book-oasis2-1.dtd">
<book xml:lang="en">

Single article root element with DOCTYPE declaration

<!DOCTYPE book-part-wrapper PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD BITS Book Interchange DTD with OASIS and XHTML Tables v2.1 20220202//EN" "BITS-book-oasis2-1.dtd">
<book-part-wrapper xml:lang="en">

Sub-topics

  1. Namespace declarations

    Capture namespace declarations on the root element if necessary.

  2. Container type

    Capture a container type as the value of a book-type attribute on the root book element.

Release ID:
20260603
ID:
root_element
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 03 Jun 2026
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
3163