DocumentID: ECMA-376/Part3/2.3
Title: ECMA-376, Part3: 2.3 Main Document Story
Extracted-From: ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats, 1st Edition / December 2006
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2.3 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.

• 2.3.1 Document Backgrounds