A container 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-group> element is not part of the narrative flow of an article; rather, it holds article resources used in the body, back matter, etc. Sub-articles (<sub-article>) and responses (<response>) may hold their own floats groups.
A journal article <article> may be divided into several components:
This element (<floats-group>) has been significantly remodeled in version 3.0 of the Tag Set. The values and/or usage in version 3.0 are not backward-compatible with that in previous versions of this Tag Set. Specifically, the <floats-group> element replaces the <floats-wrap> element, which is no longer available.
<!ELEMENT floats-group %floats-group-model; >
(alternatives | boxed-text | chem-struct-wrap | fig | fig-group | graphic | media | preformat | supplementary-material | table-wrap | table-wrap-group)*
Any combination of:
<article xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'>
...
<back>...</back>
<floats-group>
<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>...</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 ...to profile.</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 ...</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g003"/>
</fig>
<fig id="pbiog004" position="float">
<label>Figure 4</label>...
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g004"/>
</fig>...
<table-wrap id="pbiot001" content-type="1col" position="float">
<label>Table 1</label>
<caption>
<p>Data Sources for the ...</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.t001"/>
</table-wrap>
</floats-group>
...
section3.ent