Page Comparison

<Document>

Document element. The root element of a document’s tag tree.

<Part>

Part element. A large division of a document; may group smaller units of content together, such as division elements, article elements, or section elements.

<Div>

Division element. A generic block-level element or group of block-level elements.

<Art>

Article element. A self-contained body of text considered to be a single narrative.

<Sect>

Section element. A general container element type, comparable to Division (DIV Class=“Sect”) in HTML, which is usually a component of a part element or an article element.

<H1> to <H6>

A heading (H) element should appear as the first child of any higher-level division. Six levels of headings (H1 to H6) are available for applications that don’t hierarchically nest sections.

<P>

Heading and paragraph elements are paragraph-like, block-level elements that include specific level heading and generic paragraph (P) tags

<L>

List element. Any sequence of items of similar meaning or other relevance; immediate child elements should be list item elements.

<LI>

List item element. Any one member of a list; may have a label element (optional) and a list body element (required) as a child.

<LBL>

Label element. A bullet, name, or number that identifies and distinguishes an element from others in the same list.

<LBody>

List item body element. The descriptive content of a list item.

<BlockQuote>

Block quote element. One or more paragraphs of text attributed to someone other than the author of the immediate surrounding text.

<Caption>

Caption element. A brief portion of text that describes a table or a figure.

<Index>

Index element. A sequence of entries that contain identifying text and reference elements that point out the occurrence of the text in the main body of the document.

<TOC>

Table of contents element. An element that contains a structured list of items and labels identifying those items; has its own discrete hierarchy.

<TOCI>

Table of contents item element. An item contained in a list associated with a table of contents element.

<Table>

Table element. A two-dimensional arrangement of data or text cells that contains table row elements as child elements and may have a caption element as its first or last child element.

<TR>

Table row element. One row of headings or data in a table; may contain table header cell elements and table data cell elements.

<TH>

Table header cell element. A table cell that contains header text or data describing one or more rows or columns of a table.

<TD>

Table data cell element. A table cell that contains nonheader data.

<BibEntry>

Bibliography entry element. A description of where some cited information may be found.

<Quote>

Quote entry element. An inline portion of text that is attributed to someone other than the author of the text surrounding it; different from a block quote, which is a whole paragraph or multiple paragraphs, as opposed to inline text.

<Span>

Span entry element. Any inline segment of text; commonly used to delimit text that is associated with a set of styling properties.

<Code>

Code entry element. Computer program text embedded within a document.

<Link>

Link entry element. A hyperlink that is embedded within a document. The target can be in the same document, in another PDF document, or on a website.

<Figure>

Figure entry element. A graphic or graphic representation associated with text.

<Form>

Form entry element. A PDF form annotation that can be or has been filled out.

<Formula>

Formula entry element. A mathematical formula.

<Note>

Note entry element. Explanatory text or documentation, such as a footnote or endnote, that is referred to in the main body of text.

<Reference>

Reference entry element. A citation to text or data that is found elsewhere in the document.