It is not necessary to have separate paragraph styles for the number of the figure, table, or box and the rest of the caption. In the XML, eXtyles will automatically separate the number from the rest of the caption paragraph, provided that the display item is referred to by a recognized name (e.g., Figure, Fig., Example, Illustration, Table, Box, Video, etc.) and a consistent character (e.g., period, colon) is used to separate the two parts (i.e., caption and label). Special allowance can be made for captions that span more than one paragraph.

The following figure caption paragraphs in Word will yield the subsequent XML.

<fig id="fig01" position="float" fig-type="figure">
<label>Figure 1</label><caption><p>Map of all overflights extending 25 miles from the Mount Rushmore perimeter.</p><p>Flight tracks are black color with a line width of 0.3pt and a transparency of 50%.</p></caption>
<long-desc>Figure 1 Map of all overflights extending 25 miles from the Mount Rushmore perimeter and then additional alternative accessibility text describing the image.</long-desc>
<graphic xlink:href="jms0912_fig01"/>
</fig>

Figure Numbers and the <graphic> Element

In the XML eXtyles will generate a unique ID for each figure in the document, both numbered and unnumbered. It is important that this figure ID in the XML match exactly the file name of the image, which is external to the XML, so that an automated InDesign layout system can pull in the correct image.