[Bug 8404] Refocus the figure element back to being a figure

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8404





--- Comment #43 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2009-12-01 09:56:28 ---
(In reply to comment #38)
> Here is another example of a table as a figure, this time with real data, not
> fake data meant for illustrative purposes:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=QbdMOM89qv0C&lpg=PA555&dq=%22table%20in%20figure%22&lr=&pg=PA556#v=onepage&q=%22table%20in%20figure%22&f=false
> 
> I can produce literally tens of examples of these without trying.  This is
> *precisely* the usage as currently defined in the spec.

And where do you place the footnotes of that table, so that it fits with what
is currently defined in the spec?

I'll answer myself: As currently defined, there is not a single table that can
have a figure caption. All figure elements will instead - as currently defined
- contain a <dd> where the <dt> is the caption. Those footnotes of that table
therefore lands in the <dd> element. And the caption - which is were the word
"figure" appears - captions *the unity* of the table and the footnotes.

As I see it now, the figure of that google page should be created like this:

<figure>
    <object>
       <table><tr><td>etc
      </table>
      <div class="footnotes">
         <p id="footnote-1>...</p>
         <p id="footnote-2>...</p>
      </div>
    </object>
   <p><b>Figure 28.2</b> This span table is suitable for ...</p>
</figure>


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Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:56:38 UTC