xmlbody
xmlbody is a term used in the XML ecosystem to denote a top‑level element that contains the main body of an XML document. While not an official part of the XML specification itself, the concept has appeared in several application‑specific schemas and document models, such as XHTML 2.0, XForms, and certain web service protocols. In these contexts xmlbody is intended to separate structural metadata from the substantive content, allowing libraries and processors to isolate and render only the relevant information. For example, an XForms instance might wrap the user data in an <xmlbody> element to distinguish it from the form definition.
The xmlbody element is generally defined with the following simple characteristics: it must appear once within
Because xmlbody is largely a documentation convention, its practical impact depends on the tooling ecosystem. Many