Remarks

Authoring and Conversion Note: Although, in theory, the position attribute of this element may be used to indicate whether this element must be anchored at its exact location within the text or whether it may float, it is usually good practice to anchor media objects. The few media files that are really floating loose in text should be anchored there, and all the media objects inside figures, tables, etc. should be anchored as well, although the outer structure (figure, boxed-text) may be allowed to float.

Authoring and Conversion Note: Internal Elements, such as <caption>, should always be used at the highest possible level; in other words, if a Media Object <media> element is inside a Figure <fig>, the <caption>, <long-desc>, etc. should be part of the Figure, not part of the Media Object. Use a <caption> element on a Media Object only when the media object is not enclosed in any other structure or when a figure contains multiple media objects, each of which must have a <caption>. Similarly, the Position attribute should not be used on a <media> that is inside a larger display container such as a Paragraph <p>.