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You will find the different types of tags and what they stand for, segregated according to the sections listed below:

Container

Tags	What they stand for
<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.

Tags	What they stand for
<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

Tags	What they stand for
<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.

Tags	What they stand for
<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.

Tags	What they stand for
<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.

Tags	What they stand for
<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.

Tags	What the tag element stand for
<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.