Taylor & Francis Journal Article DTD User Guide

DTD User Guide (1.10.1) for DTD "Taylor & Francis Journal Article DTD" version 1.10

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Description

This element is the outer-most element of the standard CALS table model. Each table consist of one or more table grid containers that specify the number of columns and the widths of the column in each grid:

<table>
  <tgroup>...</tgroup>
  <tgroup>...</tgroup>
</table>

It may specify a surrounding frame (or partial frame), orientation (portrait or landscape) and width (span columns or not).

This element is employed within formal tables (see <formaltable>) and informal tables (see <informaltable>).

Note that the CALS model has been modified to ensure or encourage additional Taylor & Francis rules and conventions. On this element, the changes are:


-	the model usually includes attributes for specifying the column and row separator lines, but they have been removed to help ensure that they are used on lower-level elements.


-	the attribute that identifies lines around the table has been set to a default value of "topbot" instead of just "implied", because this is the usual setting for (official) article tables.


-	the element that specifies various things for each column of the table (see <colspec>) has been made required instead of optional.

Parent Elements

The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.

Parent elements: <formaltable> <informaltable>

Model Diagram

The DTD model for this element:

--+(sequence)
  |  
 tgroup (repeatable) -- (elements)

DTD Definition

The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):

<!ELEMENT table                          (tgroup+)>
<!ATTLIST table
                frame                    (top | bottom | topbot | all | 
                                          sides | none)  "topbot" 
                orient                   (port | land)  "port" 
                pgwide                   NMTOKEN  #IMPLIED 
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>

Defined in DTD section Block-level Content : Tables

General Attributes (shared with other elements)

Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)

Local Attributes (defined for this element alone)

Attribute: frame

Description

This attribute specifies whether or not to draw lines around, or partly around, the whole table. This implementation has a default value of "topbot" instead of the usual implied setting.

Specification

This attribute is required but has a default value of "topbot". The allowed values are "top", "bottom", "topbot", "all", "sides" and "none".

DTD Definition

                frame                    (top | bottom | topbot | all | 
                                          sides | none)  "topbot"

Attribute: orient (Orientation)

Description

This attribute specifies whether to render the table in landscape or portrait orientation.

Specification

This attribute is required but has a default value of "port". The allowed values are "port" and "land".

DTD Definition

                orient                   (port | land)  "port"

Attribute: pgwide (Page Wide)

Description

This attribute can be used to specify that the table is large enough to need more than the width of a single column. The value "0" indicates no column spanning. The value "1" indicates spanning across all columns. This attribute is ignored if the table is being presented in landscape (see orient).

Specification

This attribute is not required. It holds a single name token (initial character must be a letter, '_' or ':', and remaining characters must be letters or digits or '_', ':', '-', or '.').

DTD Definition

                pgwide                   NMTOKEN  #IMPLIED