<caption> Caption of a Figure, Table, etc.

Container element for the textual description that is associated with an object (for example, with a <fig> or <table-wrap>).

Usage/Remarks

A caption is a visible textual description of a table, figure, or similar object. In print or display, a caption is usually recognizable because it is not part of the ordinary text flow; it sits just under, above, beside, or in the same small window or page area as the tabular portions of a table or the graphical portions of a figure. A <caption> may contain many kinds of text associated with its object, for example, a title (tagged as <title>), or a descriptive paragraph (tagged as <p>). If a <legend> is present, it follows the <caption>, it is not inside the <caption>.
Captions may just contain paragraphs of explanatory text (see example below) or a caption may contain an explicit title as well as text. The title is typically a short, pithy statement that acts as a heading and may be made typographically distinct, for example, set in bold or italics while the following paragraph is in roman.
Attributes

Base Attributes

Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  caption      %caption-model;                              >
Expanded Content Model

(title?, (p)*)

Tagged Samples
In figure
...
<sec>
 <title>Results</title>
 <p>... Details of randomization procedures, treatment 
  schedules, and numbers of patients followed up are given 
  on the <italic>BMJ</italic> website.</p>
 <fig id="F1">
  <caption>
   <title>Deaths among patients receiving day hospital care 
    or alternative services.</title>
   <p>Odds ratios of death by end of follow up were calculated 
    by fixed effects model. Heterogeneity between trials is 
    presented as χ<sup>2</sup></p>
  </caption>
  <graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
    xlink:href="fors2662.f1" >
   <object-id>456472</object-id>
  </graphic>
 </fig>
 <p>...</p>
</sec>
...
... 
<fig id="f8" orientation="portrait" position="float">
 <caption>
  <p>Time difference between events F and A as a function of the 
   length of entering plug for bifurcations B to BXXX, where X stands 
   for 0 or 1.</p>
 </caption>
 <graphic orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:href="f8"/>
</fig>
...
In table
...
<table-wrap id="TN0.170">
 <caption>
  <title>Patient Care at End of Follow Up</title>
  <p>Numbers of patients receiving institutional care at
   the end of scheduled follow up and use of hospital beds
   among those allocated to day hospital or alternative
   services</p>
 </caption>
 <table frame="box" rules="all" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
   <th/>
   <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Institutional care</th>
   <th/>
   <th colspan="2" align="center" rowspan="1">&#x2003;Bed use (days)</th>
  </tr>
  ...
 </table>
</table-wrap>
...
...
<table-wrap id="t2" orientation="portrait" position="float">
 <caption>
  <p>Models to approximate the bound frequencies as waves 
   in X→M (<inline-graphic id="g1" xlink:href="d1"/>: Rotational, 
   <inline-graphic id="g2" xlink:href="d2"/>: Vibrate in <italic>y</italic> 
   direction, <inline-graphic id="g3" xlink:href="d3"/>: Vibrate in
   <italic>x</italic> direction, <inline-graphic id="g4" xlink:href="d4"/>: 
   Vibrate mainly in <italic>y</italic> direction including a small 
   portion of vibration in <italic>x</italic> direction, 
   <inline-graphic id="g5" xlink:href="d5"/>: Vibrate mainly in 
   <italic>x</italic> direction including a small portion of vibration 
   in <italic>y</italic> direction).</p>
 </caption>
 <table border="1">...</table>
</table-wrap>
...
Alternative Spanish and English Variants of a Figure
...<front>
    ...</front>
  <body>...
<fig id="f0001" lang-group="f0001"
  position="float" fig-type="scatter-graph" 
  xml:lang="en" lang-variant="translation" 
  lang-source="translator" lang-focus="secondary">
 <caption><p>Evolution of the repetition rate in all sequences</p></caption>
  <graphic xlink:href="RIYA_A_1889289_F0001_OC.jpg" 
    content-type="color" specific-use="web-only"/>
</fig>

<fig id="f0005" lang-group="f0001"  
  position="float" fig-type="scatter-graph" 
  xml:lang="es" lang-variant="original" 
  lang-source="author" lang-focus="primary">
  <caption><p>Evolución de la tasa de repetición en  
  todas las secuencias</p></caption>
  <graphic xlink:href="RIYA_A_1889289_F0005_OC.jpg" 
    content-type="color" specific-use="web-only"/>
</fig>...</body>
</article>
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