BPG4-0 DTD: objectgroup - element description

Objects are items referred to within a document. Most commonly these items are Figures and Tables, which are usually defined within the objectgroup of the XML document.

<object position="floating" type="figure" id="f1">
<objectsource>
<file name="apt_1527_f1.gif" type="gif" id="f1_source"/></objectsource>
<legend id="f1_legend">
<p><span id="f1_legend_span"><number>Figure 1. </number>Schematic flow chart 
of the study design and the patient numbers during follow-up. *Poor compliance 
to triple therapy was defined as the consumption of less than 5 days of 
medication due to severe intolerable adverse events. CRI, chronic renal 
insufficiency; LCA, lansoprazole–clarithromycin–amoxicillin; 
LCM, lansoprazole–clarithromycin–metronidazole.</span></p></legend></object>

.....
<objectgroup>
<object type="table" position="floating" id="t4">
<legend id="t4_legend">
<p><span id="t4_legend_span"><number>Table 4. </number>Nitrogen and phosphorus
content (g m<sup>−2</sup>) and N:P ratio of the aboveground vegetation at peak biomass.
Nutrient treatments: see <link rid="t1 t1_legend_span">Table 1</link>. Data are means±SD (n=3).
Different letters in columns indicate significant difference between treatments
(<i>P</i><0.05).</span></p></legend>
<objectsource>
<insitu id="t4_source">
<tbl>
<tgroup cols="7">
<colspec colnum="1" colname="col1"/>
<colspec colnum="2" colname="col2"/>
<colspec colnum="3" colname="col3"/>
<colspec colnum="4" colname="col4"/>
<colspec colnum="5" colname="col5"/>
<colspec colnum="6" colname="col6"/>
<colspec colnum="7" colname="col7"/>
<thead>
<row rowsep="1"><entry>Treatment</entry><entry namest="col2" nameend="col3">
N-content</entry><entry namest="col4" nameend="col5">P-content</entry>
<entry namest="col6" nameend="col7">N:P ratio</entry></row></thead>

<row><entry></entry><entry>River</entry><entry>Peat</entry>
<entry>River</entry><entry>Peat</entry><entry>River</entry>
<entry>Peat</entry></row><row><entry>0</entry>
<entry align="char">5.8±2.3a</entry><entry align="char">
9.2±1.6a</entry><entry align="char">0.99±0.56a</entry>
<entry align="char">0.60±0.03a</entry><entry align="char">
6.3±1.5a</entry><entry align="char">15.8±2.0a</entry>
<row><entry>N</entry><entry align="char">6.4±0.2a</entry>
<entry align="char">10.8±0.8a</entry><entry align="char">
1.13±0.39a</entry><entry align="char">0.70±0.10a</entry>
<entry align="char">6.2±2.2a</entry><entry align="char">
15.9±2.5a</entry></row><row><entry>N+P</entry>
<entry align="char">8.7±1.4a</entry><entry align="char">10.3±1.1a</entry>
<entry align="char">1.58±0.04a</entry><entry align="char">1.16±0.17a</entry>
<entry align="char">5.5±0.9a</entry><entry align="char">
8.9±1.1b</entry></row><row><entry>P</entry>
<entry align="char">4.9±2.7a</entry><entry align="char">
10.1±0.3a</entry><entry align="char">1.05±0.42a</entry>
<entry align="char">1.68±0.30b</entry><entry align="char">
4.5±0.7a</entry><entry align="char">6.1±0.9b</entry>
</row></tbody></tgroup></tbl></insitu></objectsource></object></objectgroup>

Setting the position to "floating" will mean the objects will be accessible through thumbnails when viewed in the online version, rather than displaying directly on the page.

Inline objects

In the online version of an article, objects are sometimes required to appear directly in the article rather than via a thumbnail running alongside the main text.

Reproducing this exact format online would be impossible, but the object should be tagged so that the image will appear directly on the page, in between two paragraphs of text:-

<p>By Jonathan Silvertown &amp; Deborah Charlesworth. 4th edn. 
347 &plus; viii pages. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2001. &pound;27.50 p/b. 
ISBN 0632&nbsp;04991 X</p>

<p><object type="figure" position="fixed" id="fu1">
<objectsource>
<file name="nph_465_fu1.gif" type="gif"/></objectsource></object></p>

<p>Most population biologists and ecologists would be...

Where an image must appear within the actual paragraph, and there is no suitable entity to represent it, inline objects can again be utilised:-

oocytes found in this gonad show degenerative features (<object 
position="fixed" type="figure" id="fu1" format="inline"><objectsource>
<file name="jfb_074_fu1.gif" type="gif" id="fu1_source"/></objectsource>
</object>). Stromal cells occupy the majority of the gonad matrix.

MULTIPART OBJECTS

Where a single image file is not sufficient to fully display a figure or table image (the figure is continued over several pages in the PDF for example), several image files can be used for a single object. This is achieved using filegroup tagging:-

<object id="f5" type="figure" position="floating">
<objectsource>
<filegroup id="f5abc">
<file name="mmi_3415_f5a.gif" type="gif" id="f5a_source"/>
<file name="mmi_3415_f5b.gif" type="gif" id="f5b_source"/>
<file name="mmi_3415_f5c.gif" type="gif" id="f5c_source"/>
</filegroup>
</objectsource>

When viewed in the online version, clicking on the thumbnail for this figure will bring up all three image files in the same pop-up window.

Where a tagged table is continued over several pages in the PDF, it should be tagged repiting tbl frame.


<objectgroup>
<object id="t2" type="table" position="floating">
<legend id="t2_legend">
<p><span id="t2_legend_span"><number><b>Table 2</b></number>
Total emergence of <i>Chenopodium album</i>: </span><span id="t2a_legend_span">
<number>(A) </number>between November 1999and October 2000 inclusive, given as a
 percentage of the number of seeds sown in November 1999; </span><span id="t2b_legend_span">
<number>(B) </number>between November 2000 and October 2001 inclusive, given as a percentage
of the number of seeds sown in November 1999; </span><span id="t2c_legend_span"><number>
(C) </number>between November 2000 and October 2001 inclusive, given as a percentage
of the number of seeds sown in November 2000. Angle-transformed means shown in parentheses
alongside back-transformed percentages</span></p></legend>
<objectsource>
<insitu id="t2_source">
<tbl frame="topbot">
<tgroup cols="5">
<colspec colnum="1" colname="col1"/>, etc...
<thead>
<row rowsep="0">
<entry>XXXX</entry></row>
</thead>

<tbody>
<row>XXXX
</tbody>

<tfoot>
<row>XXXX</entry></row>
</tfoot>

<tbl frame="topbot">

<tgroup cols="5">
, etc...

<thead>
<row rowsep="0">XXXX</entry></row>
</thead>

<tbody>
<row><entry>XXXX</entry></row>
</tbody>

<tfoot>
<row><entry>XXXX</entry></row>
</tfoot>

</tgroup></tbl>

<tbl frame="topbot">

<tgroup cols="5">
<colspec colnum="1" colname="col1"/>, etc...

<thead>
<row rowsep="0"><entry>XXXX</entry></row>
</thead>

<tbody>
<row><entry>XXXX</entry></row>
</tbody>

<tfoot>
<row><entry>XXXX</entry></row>
</tfoot>

</tgroup></tbl></insitu></objectsource></object>

objectgroup

Inline objects

MULTIPART OBJECTS

Attributes

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Sub-elements

Parent elements