Main Document Story

The contents of the main document story—the only story that is required in a valid WordprocessingML document—are encapsulated within the <body> element. The content of the main document body is a collection of block-level structures, which are those WordprocessingML elements that can contain and/or be sibling elements with a WordprocessingML paragraph.

Within the document body, the valid set of block level content is:

  • Paragraphs

  • Tables

  • Custom markup (custom XML, structured document tags)

  • Section properties

  • Annotations (comments, revision markers, range permission markers)

  • Alternate format chunks

Each of these block-level content constructs (the 'building blocks' of WordprocessingML) is defined in the following subclauses.