<table-wrap>

Table Wrapper

Wrapper element for a complete table, including the tabular material (rows and columns), caption (including title), footnotes, and alternative descriptions of the table for purposes of accessibility.

Remarks

Table Content: This element has been designed to capture a construct named “table”, whether that structure contains an explicit <table> (or <oasis:table>) element or contains non-tabular structures such as graphics, lists, or paragraphs. Many publishers associate table captions and table numbers with material that is not explicitly tabular. Within the <table-wrap> element, row and column tags that describe the table cells should be defined by either the <table> element of the NISO JATS table model (based on and designed to be converted easily to the XHTML 1.1 table model) or, less typically, by the OASIS XML Exchange (CALS) table model.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <table-wrap>, see Table, Table Wrapper, and Table Group.
Design Note: Many tag sets use an element called “Table Footnote” (with a tag such as <tblfn>) for footnotes inside a table. This Tag Set uses <fn> inside tables, as well as everywhere else, relying instead on context to differentiate table footnotes. Footnotes inside a <table-wrap> are assumed to be footnotes to the table and, as part of the table, are displayed at the bottom of the table, usually as part of the <table-wrap-foot>, rather than at the bottom of the page or otherwise separated from the display of the table.
Position: The @position attribute may be used to indicate whether a <table-wrap> must be anchored at its exact location within the text or whether it may float, for example, to the top of the next page, into the next column, to the end of a logical file, or within a separate window.
NISO JATS Table Processing Note: In building the NISO JATS table model from the XHTML model, the <caption> element was removed from within the <table> element, because, in the JATS Tag Suite, the <caption> element has been made part of the <table-wrap> element.

Related Elements

The <table> element is an element defined by the NISO JATS table model, which is based on and designed to be converted easily to the XHTML 1.1 table model. This element is not, in itself, a full table, but only the rows and columns portions of a table. A full table may have other features, such as a title, caption, table footnotes, etc. The <table-wrap> element contains the full table, that is, both rows and columns as well as captions and footers. A full table (<table-wrap>) may or may not include an actual <table> element within it, since other constructions, such as 2-part lists, may also be given table titles, captions, etc.
OASIS CALS Table Note: The BITS DTD uses the XHTML Table Model. For users that choose to use the OASIS table model in addition to the more XHTML-like NISO JATS table model, a version of the BITS DTD has been provided with that model (BITS-book-oasis1.dtd) in addition to the XHTML table model. This BITS OASIS DTD includes two different table models by using pseudo-namespaces with a fixed prefix to differentiate any name clashes. The XHTML-based table model is taken as primary (no namespace prefix) and the OASIS XML Exchange (CALS) table model set up to use pseudo-namespaces (prefix “oasis”) with an xmlns #FIXED attribute. A separate Tag Library describing the OASIS table model elements, attributes, and parameter entities may be accessed at https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/options/OASIS/tag-library/19990315/index.html.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
orientation Orientation
position Position
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  table-wrap   %table-wrap-model;                           >

Expanded Content Model

((object-id)*, label?, (caption)?, (contrib-group)*, (abstract)*, (kwd-group)*, (alt-text | long-desc | email | ext-link | uri)*, (disp-quote | speech | statement | verse-group | def-list | list | alternatives | chem-struct-wrap | code | graphic | media | preformat | table)*, (table-wrap-foot | attrib | permissions)*)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<abstract>, <ack>, <answer>, <app>, <app-group>, <bio>, <body>, <book-app-group>, <boxed-text>, <disp-quote>, <explanation>, <fig>, <floats-group>, <glossary>, <index>, <index-div>, <index-group>, <license-p>, <named-book-part-body>, <named-content>, <notes>, <option>, <p>, <question>, <question-preamble>, <ref-list>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <supplementary-material>, <table-wrap-group>, <toc>, <toc-div>, <toc-entry>, <toc-group>, <trans-abstract>

Example 1

A table wrapper where the example shows the label and caption for the <table>:
...
<table-wrap id="t2" orientation="portrait" position="float">
<label>Table II.</label>
<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>
...

Example 2

A table wrapper showing the tagging inside the table:
    ...
<table-wrap id="bid.269">
<label>1</label>
<caption>
<title>Files on the taxonomy FTP site.</title>
</caption>
<table frame="box" rules="all" cellpadding="5">
<thead>
<tr>
<th align="left" valign="top">File</th>
<th align="left" valign="top">Uncompresses to</th>
<th align="left" valign="top">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">taxdump.tar.Z<xref ref-type="fn"
rid="mul2"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">readme.txt</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">A terse description of the dmp
files</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">nodes.dmp</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Structure of the database; lists
each taxid with its parent taxid, rank, and other values
associated with each node (genetic codes, etc.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
...
</tbody>
</table>
<table-wrap-foot>
<fn symbol="a" id="mul2">
<p>For non-UNIX users, the file taxdmp.zip includes the
same (zip compressed) data.</p>
</fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
...

Example 3

A table wrapper with table authors listed in a <contrib-group>:
...
<table-wrap id="t5" position="float">
<label>Table 5</label>
<caption><title>Comparison of Popular Non-sporting Dogs for Size, 
Disposition, and Other Characteristics</title></caption>
<contrib-group>
<contrib>
<name><surname>Lapeyre</surname>
<given-names>Deborah A.</given-names></name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<table rules="cols">
<tbody>...</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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