The basic structural unit of an article, typically starting with a heading that serves as the section title
Section Titles. Section titles are not required by the dtd. In APA content, many articles (perhaps most) start with several unheaded paragraphs that make up the initial untitled first section. However, untitled sections after the first section are typically an error.
Section numbers are not separately tagged, but are merely part of the text of the title.
<sec id="s8"> <title>8. Empirical Poodle Studies</title>
Section Separators. In many of the APA’s and their partners’ print journals, small symbols (called section separators) are printed between the end of one section and the start of the next or at the very end of the article. These symbols are print artifacts that are not tagged in the XML.
Content Item Comparison. The previous contentItem DTD defined nested sections: the <section> element contained <subsect1>; the <subsect1> contained <subsect2>, etc. In this DTD, the <sec> element contains nested <sec> elements, with no explicit numbering; that is, <sec>s contain <sec>s, which may contain <sec>s, as deeply nested as you wish.
(sec-meta?, title?, subtitle?, (address | alternatives | array | graphic | preformat | disp-formula | p | def-list | list | disp-quote | speech | statement | verse-group)*, (sec)*, (ref-list)*)
The following, in order:
<article structure-type="article" dtd-version="0.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <front>...</front> <body> <sec id="s1"> <p align="left">Therapist immediacy, which we defined as disclosures within ...</p> ... </sec> <sec id="s2"> <title>Empirical Studies Related to Therapist Immediacy</title> <p align="left">A few studies have been conducted that point to the effectiveness of immediacy ...</p> ... </sec> ... </body> ... </article>
<article structure-type="article" dtd-version="0.1"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<front>...</front>
<body>
...
<sec id="s3" disp-level="subsect1">
<title>Method</title>
<sec id="s4" disp-level="subsect2">
<title>Participants</title>
<p align="left">Table 1 contains the demographic data ...</p>
</sec>
</sec>
...
</body>
...
</article>
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