Revision to the definition of 'Element'

I wanted to make sure that our definition of "Element" adequately covers our
usage in definitions such as "Text element". Is our usage as a "logical
construct" or something else? I think it as a "unit of content" rather than
necessarily being tied to particular "type of content". For example, a
"multimedia presentation" might be considered an element, but also might its
visual track or even a text equivalent of a visual track might be considered
"elements".  

Your comments welcome.

Old (29 September 2000):

"Element This document uses the term "element" both in the XML sense (an
element is a syntactic construct as described in the XML 1.0 specification
[XML], section 3) and more generally to mean a type of content (such as
video or sound) or a logical construct (such as a header or list)."

New:

"Element This document uses the term "element" both in the XML sense (an
element is a syntactic construct as described in the XML 1.0 specification
[XML], section 3) and more generally to mean a unit of content (text element
or non-text element) or a logical construct (such as a header or list)."

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Received on Friday, 20 October 2000 17:16:09 UTC