Indesign, XML export and NITF

As producer of a weekly newspaper, I need advice as to generate xml from Indesign CC (Mac) to NITF standards, as preferred by my digital distributor. That includes dividing an article - that may be formatted in just one text frame - into two equal elements: One for headline, byline etc., and one for the body of text. Is there any way of doing this without altering the original layout, intended for printing? I would rather not having to break the one frame up into two just for this purpose – for every article in the paper. Simply put: can one frame, in a whizz, be two elements, both head and body? There are no shortage of helpful advice around on xml, nor on the NITF standard for news dressing, but I have not yet found one that deals with both. Thanks in advance.

Your suggestion seem to work for me. I created two tags (head and body) that I applied just to other groups of tagged text. It gave me this structure, that might just be what my doctor ordered. Now I am ready to move on to next question: How to get 3 text frames squeezed into this same structure... Thank you so much, Mike!
<Root>
<head>
<title>title</title>
<lead>lead</lead>
<byline>byline</byline>
</head>
<body>
<bodytxt>bodytxt</bodytxt>
<sub3>sub3</sub3>
<bodytxt>bodytxt</bodytxt>
</body>
</Root>

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