Answers.Body: <p>Excellent question, and kudos for thinking about the semantics! It's depressing how few people do this.</p>
  <p>The best resource for epub:type is the <a href="http://www.idpf.org/epub/vocab/structure/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Strucutral Semantics Vocabulary</a> from the IDPF. In the &quot;Document Divisions&quot; section, they detail what these divisions are used for:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>volume:</strong> A component of a collection.</p>
  <p><strong>part:</strong> A major structural division of a piece of writing, typically
  encapsulating a set of related chapters.</p>
  <p><strong>chapter:</strong> A major structural division of a piece of writing.</p>
  <p><strong>subchapter:</strong> A major sub-division of a chapter.</p>
  <p><strong>division:</strong> A major structural division that may also appear as a
  substructure of a part (esp. in legislation).</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Each of these divisions should apply to either a <code>&lt;section&gt;</code> or a <code>&lt;body&gt;</code> element.</p>
  <p>For your case of independent tales and poems, I think we can probably rule out <code>sub-chapter</code>, unless some of your tales are long enough that they have sections within them that are distinct enough to warrant new levels of headers. My inclination would be to use <code>chapter</code> for each item, and potentially <code>part</code> if you have relevant content groupings, eg all the tales in one section and all the poems in another. Division seems to be a division that is larger than a chapter but smaller than a part, and volume would be a whole new book. <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, for example, would be three volumes (one for each book), each comprising 2 parts themselves made up of a number of chapters.</p>
  <p>It should be noted that at present, there are few devices that make use of epub:type tags at all, and none that I'm aware of that use the document divisions. Adding in the semantics now means that when a reading system does come out that makes use of this information, you'll already be set though, which is nice.</p>
  
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Body: <p>The <code>epub:type</code> attribute provides 5 values for the content of an e-book: <code>volume</code>, <code>part</code>, <code>chapter</code>, <code>subchapter</code> and <code>division</code>. I wonder which one is best to use in books which are composed entirely of independent tales or poems.</p>
  
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Title: How to mark up tales and poems using epub:type?
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ThreadText: # How to mark up tales and poems using epub:type?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-02)
  
  The `epub:type` attribute provides 5 values for the content of an e-book: `volume`, `part`, `chapter`, `subchapter` and `division`. I wonder which one is best to use in books which are composed entirely of independent tales or poems.
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-02. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Excellent question, and kudos for thinking about the semantics! It's depressing how few people do this.
  
  The best resource for epub:type is the [Strucutral Semantics Vocabulary](http://www.idpf.org/epub/vocab/structure/) from the IDPF. In the "Document Divisions" section, they detail what these divisions are used for:
  
  > **volume:** A component of a collection.
  >
  > **part:** A major structural division of a piece of writing, typically
  > encapsulating a set of related chapters.
  >
  > **chapter:** A major structural division of a piece of writing.
  >
  > **subchapter:** A major sub-division of a chapter.
  >
  > **division:** A major structural division that may also appear as a
  > substructure of a part (esp. in legislation).
  
  Each of these divisions should apply to either a `<section>` or a `<body>` element.
  
  For your case of independent tales and poems, I think we can probably rule out `sub-chapter`, unless some of your tales are long enough that they have sections within them that are distinct enough to warrant new levels of headers. My inclination would be to use `chapter` for each item, and potentially `part` if you have relevant content groupings, eg all the tales in one section and all the poems in another. Division seems to be a division that is larger than a chapter but smaller than a part, and volume would be a whole new book. *The Lord of the Rings*, for example, would be three volumes (one for each book), each comprising 2 parts themselves made up of a number of chapters.
  
  It should be noted that at present, there are few devices that make use of epub:type tags at all, and none that I'm aware of that use the document divisions. Adding in the semantics now means that when a reading system does come out that makes use of this information, you'll already be set though, which is nice.
  
  
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