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Element
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"Element:
A
structural building block that can be defined to contain data,
subordinate elements, or both. In typical documents, examples of
elements would be paragraphs, chapters, headings, figures, and
tables. In hypermedia documents, some examples are hyperlinks of
various types, event schedules, events, and objects encoded in a
variety of data notations."
http://y12web2.y12.doe.gov/sgml/wg8/docs/n1920/html/clause-6.1.html
See also:
Entities;
Units in knowledge organization