<bodydiv>The <bodydiv> element is used to contain informal blocks of
information within the body of a topic. The <bodydiv> element is
specifically designed to be a grouping element, without any explicit semantics, other than to
organize subsets of content into logical groups that are not intended or should not be contained
as a topic. As such, it does not contain an explicit title to avoid enabling the creation of
deeply nested content that would otherwise be written as separate topics. Content that requires a
title should use a <section> element or a nested topic.
The <bodydiv> element may nest itself, which means that it can be used
as a specialization base to create structured information within a body. Another common use case
for the <bodydiv> element is to group a sequence of related elements for
reuse, so that another topic may reference the entire set with a single @conref
attribute.
Because the <bodydiv> element allows
<section>, it cannot be used within
<section> elements. Use the <div> element to
group content that might occur in both topic bodies and sections.
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
- topic/bodydiv
<topic id="sample" xml:lang="en">
<title>Sample for bodydiv</title>
<body>
<bodydiv id="div">
<p>This set of information is reusable as a group.</p>
<p>Lists of three contain three items.</p>
<ul>
<li>This is one item.</li>
<li>This is another item.</li>
<li>This is the third item.</li>
</ul>
</bodydiv>
<p>This concludes my topic.</p>
</body>
</topic>
The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group and outputclass.
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