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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 the value eng unless a different value is specified by OUP.

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="eng">

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="eng">

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:
20261202
ID:
root_element
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
2908