Structured content (COPE content) Overview

Structured content types were defined in the CMS as a move towards Create Once Publish Everywhere (COPE)

There are [x] types of structured content:

• DIY Legal Solution - this provides an introduction section and then links to other content including other structured content formats (DIY Legal solutions, legal options, legal questions) and other non-structured content (Guides, other related resources)

• Legal options - this provides:

  • legal difficulty

  • eligibility rules

  • results expected

  • links to step-by-step instructions

  • references to non-legal helpful organizations

  • references to legal organizations

• Legal how-to

  • time required to complete the how-to

  • Contains 1 or more step sections; the step sections references 1 or more legal steps

• Legal step

  • Has a type (direction or step)

  • Links to legal forms needed

  • Is jurisdiction-based

• Legal question - supplemental information relevant to the DIY Legal solution, legal option, or otherwise independent related questions. Each question includes:

  • An accepted answer, which is jurisdiction-based

  • Links to other questions

  • Links to other resources

• Legal forms

See the authoring guide for how to build each of these content types. See the website layouts section for how these appear on the website.

Content formats

We have defined two key formats for text-based markup:

• the list format.

• a structured text format

Both formats rely on the “paired content markup” that translates HTML text into plain text with footnoted urls, which will work better on non-web channels.