Identifies the format type of the figure, for example, a cartoon, chart, diagram, drawing, exhibit, illustration, map, plate, schema, workflow, etc.
This attribute was created to preserve existing semantic content when converting from a publisher’s DTD. Many journal DTDs make a distinction between different types of graphical objects (some by means of attributes, others with distinct elements). In this DTD, all these figure types will be tagged using the <fig> element. The distinctions between different types of figures can be preserved using the Type of Figure attribute, e.g., by recording the content type of the figure, such as “map”.