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The body element directly contains only one type of element: div. The div element serves as a major division of content and any number of them can be contained by the body. Additionally, divisions are recursive, allowing divs to contain other divs. It is within these elements that all other structural elements are contained. Those elements include tables, paragraph elements p, and lists, as well as their various children elements. At the lower levels of this hierarchy lie the character container elements. These elements, namely paragraphs p, table cells, lists items, and the emphasis element hi, contain the textual content of a DSpace page, optionally modified with links, figures, and emphasis. If the division within which the character class is contained is tagged as interactive (via the interactive attribute), those elements can also contain interactive form fields. Divisions tagged as interactive must also provide method and action attributes for its fields to use.

Figure 2: All the elements in the DRI schema .

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Merging of DRI Documents

Having described the structure of the DRI Document, as well as its function in Manakin's Aspect chains, we now turn our attention to the one last detail of their use: merging two Documents into one. There are several situations where the need to merge two documents arises. In Manakin, for example, every Aspect is responsible for adding different functionality to a DSpace page. Since every instance of a page has to be a complete DRI Document, each Aspect is faced with the task of merging the Document it generated with the ones generated (and merged into one Document) by previously executed Aspects. For this reason rules exist that describe which elements can be merged together and what happens to their data and child elements in the process.

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