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<tfoot> Table Footer (NISO JATS table model)

The footer rows and columns within a NISO JATS table. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL tfoot element.)

Usage/Remarks

Use W3C documentation for the XHTML 1.1 table model (https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_tablemodule).
The footer rows and columns for a table (element <tfoot>) hold table metadata just as the table header rows do, for those tables that have metadata at both the head and the foot. The footer is defined separately from the body of a table so that table processing software can treat it differently, for example, making the table footer bold or repeating the footer when a table breaks across pages.
ISO Legacy Note
In some existing ISO STS usage, the element <table-wrap-foot> (which holds material at the bottom of a table that is not part of the rows and columns) has been used to hold content intended to be displayed as the last row of the table, content that should more correctly have been tagged with the element <tfoot>. This usage stems from the coding instructions used to outsource the conversion of thousands of pre-2014 ISO standards to XML, which considered <tfoot> and <table-wrap-foot> as equivalent alternatives for housing table footnotes. That coding instruction has since been shared in similar effort by CEN and individual CEN members to convert CEN standards to ISO STS. Best Practice (going forward) is to distinguish between <tfoot> (for repeating rows and columns) and <table-wrap-foot> (for non-tabular notes) as the current NISO STS table models intend, but many legacy documents will contain the usage just described.
Related Elements
This container element for rows and columns should not be confused with the <table-wrap-foot>, which is not more rows and columns, but a region of a full table (<table-wrap>) that contains footnotes, general notes to the table which are not explicitly called out in the table, or merely paragraphs of information about the table that appear after the last row.
Attributes
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content-type
style
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Base Attributes

id
xml:base
Models and Context
May be contained in
<table>
Description
<tr> Table Row, one or more
Content Model
<!ELEMENT %tfoot.qname;  %tfoot.content; >
Expanded Content Model

(tr)+

Tagged Sample

Column headers (<thead>) and footers (<tfoot>) 

...
<table-wrap id="TN0.170">
 <caption>
  <p>Numbers of patients receiving institutional care at the
   end of scheduled follow up and use of hospital beds among
   those allocated to day hospital or alternative services</p>
 </caption>
 <table>
  <thead>
   <tr>
    <th colspan="3" align="center"
      rowspan="1">Institutional care</th>
    <th></th>
    <th colspan="2" align="center"
      rowspan="1">&#x2003;Bed use (days)</th>
   </tr>
  </thead>

  <tfoot>
   <tr>
    <td align="center">Patients</td>
    <td align="center">Patients</td>
    <td align="center">Odds ratio</td>
    <td></td>
    <td align="center">Patients</td>
    <td align="center">Patients</td>
   </tr>
  </tfoot>

  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <td colspan="3"><hr/></td>
    <td colspan="2"><hr/></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <th>Control group</th>
    <th align="center">Day hospital</th>
    <th align="center">Control</th>
    <th align="center">Odds ratio (95&#x0025; CI)</th>
    <th></th>
    <th align="center">Day hospital</th>
    <th align="center">Control</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td colspan="7"><hr/></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Comprehensive care (5 trials)</td>
    <td align="center">151/597<xref ref-type="table-fn"
      rid="TF1-150"></xref></td>
    <td align="center">159/584</td>
    <td align="center">0.91 (0.70 to 1.19)</td>
    <td></td>
    <td align="center">20.5</td>
    <td align="center">21.4</td>
   </tr>
   ...
  </tbody>
 </table>
 <table-wrap-foot>...</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
...
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