A wrapper element to hold the floating objects (figures, tables, text boxes, graphics, etc.) that occur within an article. Some publishers like to collect all these floating objects together at the end rather than interspersing them throughout the various parts of the document where they are referenced. As such, the <floats-wrap> element is not part of the narrative flow of an article; rather, it holds article resources used in the body, back matter, etc. Subarticles (<sub-article>) and responses (<response>) may hold their own floats wrappers.
This element was added because some taggers were adding an extra fake section <sec> at the end of the body to hold floating material when they wanted such material collected into one place. This is clearly tag abuse since a <sec> should contain authored content.
A journal article <article> may be divided into several components:
<!ELEMENT floats-wrap %floats-wrap-model; >
Any combination of:
<article> Article; <response> Response; <sub-article> Sub-Article
...
<floats-wrap>
<fig id="pbiog001" position="float">
<label>Figure 1</label>
<caption>
<title>Overview of Our Approach for Mapping the
<named-content content-type="genus-species">E. coli</named-content>
Transcriptional Regulatory Network</title>
<p>Microarray expression profiles were obtained ...</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g001"/>
</fig>
<fig id="pbiog002" position="float">
<label>Figure 2</label>
<caption>
<title>The CLR Algorithm: Methods and Comparison to Other
Approaches</title>
<p>(A) A schema of the CLR algorithm. ...</p>
...
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g002"/>
</fig>
<fig id="pbiog003" position="float">
<label>Figure 3</label>
<caption>
<title>The Transcriptional Regulatory Map Inferred by CLR with
an Estimated 60% Precision</title>
<p>The precision of the network is obtained by measuring the percentage
of correctly inferred edges (blue lines) ...</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g003"/>
</fig>
...
<table-wrap id="pbiot001" content-type="1col" position="float">
<label>Table 1</label>
<caption>
<p>Data Sources for the
<named-content content-type="genus-species">Escherichia
coli</named-content> Microarray Compendium</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.t001"/>
</table-wrap>
</floats-wrap>
...
section.ent