In structured authoring, a content model comprises the structure and a set of rules for the elements within that structure for a document type such as a book, a report, an article, and so on.
For example, the following can be a content model for books:
Book
- Preface
- Imprint
- Chapter(s)
- Bibliography
Content model rules outline the following:
- Occurrence of different types of section (for example, Preface, Imprint, and so on)
- Hierarchy of the sections (for example, Imprint and About Publication)
- Order of the sections
- Cardinality of the sections (for example, there can be several chapters in a book)
- Elements within a section (for example, a chapter can have image files)
- Styles of elements within a section (for example, images should always be centrally aligned)
As a user of an authoring tool that supports structured authoring and content models, to create a book, you simply invoke the content type based on the content model Book and start adding the content.
Priyanka Bhotika
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