RE: [dita] content model for <fig>?

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

Where a figure caption appears in the output is a style issue,
not a markup issue.

So the answer to your last question is yes (if that's how
the style is defined in your case).

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Houser [mailto:arh@groupwellesley.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2007 April 10 22:21
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] content model for <fig>?
> 
> I'm trying to determine the customary DITA structure for 
> representing an 
> image with a following caption. I presume that <fig> would be the 
> appropriate container, but <fig> includes an optional <title> element 
> before (not after) <image>.
> 
> I suspect this was discussed and decided long ago. Am I missing an 
> appropriate structure for representing an image followed by a 
> caption? 
> Was there a rationale for placing the optional <title> at the 
> beginning 
> of the content model for <fig>? Is there an expectation that the 
> processor might globally swap the order of <title> and <image> if 
> appropriate?