TEI element table

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<table>

<table> contains text displayed in tabular form, in rows and columns. [14.1.1. TEI Tables]

Module figures

Attributes

Attributes att.global (@xml:id, @n, @xml:lang, @xml:base, @xml:space) (att.global.rendition (@rend, @rendition)) (att.global.responsibility (@cert, @resp))

rows rows¶

indicates the number of rows in the table.

Status Optional

Datatype data.count

Note

If no number is supplied, an application must calculate the number of rows.

Rows should be presented from top to bottom.

cols cols¶

(columns) indicates the number of columns in each row of the table.

Status Optional

Datatype data.count

Note

If no number is supplied, an application must calculate the number of columns.

Within each row, columns should be presented left to right.

Member of

model.listLike

Contained by

core: desc emph head hi item note p q quote ref title

figures: cell

header: change rendition sourceDesc

textstructure: back body div

transcr: supplied

May contain

core: gap graphic head lb note

figures: figure row

Declaration

element table
{
   attribute rows { data.count }?,
   attribute cols { data.count }?,
   (
      ( model.headLike | model.global )*,
      ( ( row, model.global* )+ | ( ( model.graphicLike ), model.global* )+ ),
      ( ( model.divBottom ), model.global* )*
   )
}

Schematron

<sch:rule context="tei:table">
<sch:assert test="not(ancestor::tei:list)"> No tables are are allowed inside lists.
</sch:assert></sch:rule>

Example

<table rows="4" cols="4">
<head>Poor Men's Lodgings in Norfolk (Mayhew, 1843)</head>
<row role="label">
  <cell role="data"/>
  <cell role="data">Dossing Cribs or Lodging Houses</cell>
  <cell role="data">Beds</cell>
  <cell role="data">Needys or Nightly Lodgers</cell>
</row>
<row role="data">
  <cell role="label">Bury St Edmund's</cell>
  <cell role="data">5</cell>
  <cell role="data">8</cell>
  <cell role="data">128</cell>
</row>
<row role="data">
  <cell role="label">Thetford</cell>
  <cell role="data">3</cell>
  <cell role="data">6</cell>
  <cell role="data">36</cell>
</row>
<row role="data">
  <cell role="label">Attleboro'</cell>
  <cell role="data">3</cell>
  <cell role="data">5</cell>
  <cell role="data">20</cell>
</row>
<row role="data">
  <cell role="label">Wymondham</cell>
  <cell role="data">1</cell>
  <cell role="data">11</cell>
  <cell role="data">22</cell>
</row>
</table>

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Note

Contains an optional heading and a series of rows.

Any rendition information should be supplied using the global rend attribute, at the table, row, or cell level as appropriate.