Wrapper element for the textual description that is associated with a <fig>, <table>, etc. This is the title for the figure or the description of the figure that prints or displays with the figure.
In print or on 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 the table or the graphical portions of the figure.
The <caption> element in this DTD Suite contains the entire, visible textual description of a table, figure, or similar object, but does not typically include the figure or table number, since this will be generated. If needed in the text, such numbers will be the content of the <label> element. The text of the caption does include any separately tagged <title> that might be present and as many paragraphs of information as needed. It may include legends, which are not identified as a separate element in this DTD Suite.
Conversion Note: In many journal articles, a distinction is made between the caption of a figure/table/etc. and its title. There may be two separate tags (<caption> and <title>), or the first sentence of the caption may be set off typographically from the rest of the caption to indicate that it is a title, for example, the first sentence may be italic or bold. In either case, if it is obvious that the figure/table/etc. contains both a title and a caption, both the title and the caption should be tagged during conversion, and the title should be moved inside the caption if it is outside.
<!ELEMENT caption (title?, %caption-body-parts;) >
<chem-struct-wrapper> Chemical Structure Wrapper; <fig> Figure; <fig-group> Figure Group; <graphic> Graphic; <media> Media Object; <supplementary-material> Supplementary Material; <table-wrap> Table Wrapper; <table-wrap-group> Table Wrapper Group
In a figure:
...
<sec>
<title>Results</title>
<p>We identified .... Details of randomization procedures,
treatment schedules, and numbers of patients followed up
are given on the <italic>BMJ</italic> website.</p>
<fig id="F1">
<label>Figure 1</label>
<caption><p>Deaths among patients receiving day hospital
care or alternative services. Odds ratios of death by
end of follow up were calculated by fixed effects model.
Heterogeneity between trials is presented as
&#x03C7;<sup>2</sup></p></caption>
<graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="fors2662.f1" alt-version="yes"></graphic>
</fig>
<p>...</p>
</sec>
...
In a table:
...
<table-wrap id="TN0.170">
<label>Table 17</label>
<caption><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>
<tr>
<th/>
<th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Institutional
care</th>
<th align="left"/> <th colspan="2" align="center"
rowspan="1"> Bed use (days)</th>
</tr>
...
</table>
</table-wrap>
...
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