Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

 

Tables

Capture tables outside the normal flow of text, in a floatGroup element. To display the table in its usual position, insert a processing instruction in the text.

Typecodes for table components

TN

Table number

TT

Table title

TCH1

Table column head

TCH2

Sub-table column head

TSH

Table spanner head

TB

Table body

TFN

Table footnote

TSN

Table source note

UTB

Unnumbered tabular material

UTCH

Unnumbered table column head

TCF

Table column foot

TCAP

Table caption
T-1 Table sidehead
T-2 Subordinate table sidehead
LDIS Capture as a tableGroup

Note: use start/end environment tags LDIS-Open and LDIS-Close

 
//floatGroup/tableGroup/table

Give the processing instructions the ID value of the id attribute of the corresponding tableGroup element. For example:

<?Insert-Table ID="acref-9780192831934-chapter-1-tableGroup-1"?>

Capture each table using the table element within a tableGroup (for an XML-encoded table), or using the graphic element within tableGroup (for graphical tables).

The table data model is broadly based on the CALS table DTD from OASIS, the main difference being that data within an entry element must be contained within p elements.

The table element can have the following three child elements:

  • titleGroup - contains the table number and title.
  • tgroup - contains the specification for each column, the table head (if there is one), the main body of the table, and the table foot (if there is one).
  • note - each table footnote is captured within the table using this element.

Capture each row in a row element and each cell in an entry element. For every entry that is not part of a span, specify a colname attribute to indicate which column of the table it is in. An entry can span two or more columns of a table. Ensure that entries within rows correspond with each other as per the content at handover (i.e. content in an entry in the left hand column must correspond appropriately to content in an entry in the right hand column)

Use xref elements to cross-reference footnote references within a table to the relevant footnote id.

Capture empty cells as empty entry/ elements without empty p/ within the cell. Empty cells may be used to help ensure that entries correspond with each other appropriately.

Do not capture the rows of dots used to connect columns in a table.

Example


      <entry colname="col1"/>

Sub-topics

  1. The tgroup table element

    The tgroup element contains the specification for each column, the table head (if there is one), the main body of the table, and the table foot (if there is one).

  2. When to use multiple tgroups

    You can break a table into multiple tgroup groups.

  3. Table headings

    Capture table headings using thead.

  4. Table footer

    Capture footers for a table using tfoot element.

  5. Cells that span two or more columns

    If an entry spans two or more columns of a table, remove the colname attribute and use a name-start namest attribute to indicate the column name in which it starts, and a name-end nameend attribute to indicate the column name in which it ends.

  6. Cells that span two or more rows

    Capture table cells that span two or more rows using the morerows attribute on the entry element.

  7. Blank rows in tables

    Indicate blank rows using the attribute rowsep=1 on the row element above.

  8. Cells that contain lists or line breaks

  9. Table Cell Alignment Character

    When the content of a table cell is aligned horizontally based on a character (e.g. alignment on a decimal point), the align attribute is set to "char" and the char attribute contains the value of the single alignment character. If the alignment character is offset, charoff contains an integer value that defines the offset to the alignment character as a percentage of the cell width, e.g. "30".

  10. Rotated text in table cells

    Where text is rotated in a table cell, capture using the rotate attribute.

  11. Sub-headings within tables

    Capture each sub-heading and applicable following row elements in separate sections of the table using tgroup groups. Capture the table heading in each tgroup using the thead element.

  12. Page breaks within tables

    For tables which flow across multiple pages capture page breaks in the first text node on each page.

  13. Examples of table XML

    A simple untitled 2-column table, a list inside table cell, multiple tables in a tableGroup, and a table row with a cell spanning two columns and a footnote reference.

  14. Source and attribution in tables

    Some tables have source or copyright information available. Capture this information in a source element.

Release ID:
20261202
ID:
OUP_Structured_Text_TCI_topic_3_20
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
4400