<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>).
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>), a descriptive paragraph (tagged as <p>), or a legend (which is not identified as a separate element in this Suite).
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
Content Model
<!ELEMENT caption %caption-model; >
Expanded Content Model
(title?, (p)*)
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
In a 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>
... Example 2
In a 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"> 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>
...