United States Congress
Data Dictionary of Legislative Documents

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Element Name: table
Description: The table model for Congressional legislative documents uses the OASIS (formerly known as CALS) Table Exchange Model with some additions and modifications to accommodate House and Senate requirements as defined by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Bills DTD Content Model: (ttitle*, tdesc*, tgroup+)
Attributes:
Name: colsep
Description: This attribute is defined by the OASIS Open Exchange Table Model. Specifies the presence or absence of column separator rules (vertical rules). Provides the default value for all tgroups in this table.
Value(s): 0, 1
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: frame
Description: This attribute is defined by the OASIS Open Exchange Table Model. Describes position of outer rulings.
Value(s): top, bottom, topbot, all, sides, none
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: line-rules
Description: Line-rule output consists of combinations of system generated rules for the top, boxheads, end of table, verticals, and sides.
Value(s): no-gen, hor, hor-ver, hor-sides, all-gen, hor-trimside, hor-ver-trimside
Default Value: #REQUIRED
Name: pgwide
Description: To be defined when tables are defined.
Value(s): 0, 1
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: rowsep
Description: This attribute is defined by the OASIS Open Exchange Table Model. Specifies the presence or absence of row separator rules (horizontal rules). Provides the default value for all tgroups in this table.
Value(s): 0, 1
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: rule-weights
Description: Override in tenths of a point from 0 to whatever. The order of specification is top, bottom of boxheads, end of table, all other horizontals, verticals, and gap between parallel, all separated by periods and entered as "?.?.?...?".
Value(s): NMTOKEN
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: subformat
Description: This attribute is used in the table tool to indicate which array of table header rules, within the table tool, to use to produce the proper GPO style formatting for spanning headers.
Value(s): CDATA
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: table-type
Description: Alias for a table based on the number of columns and rows. A table-type may also refer to a table used for a specific purpose.
Value(s): CDATA
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Parent Elements:
  • clause
  • item
  • paragraph
  • quoted-block
  • section
  • subclause
  • subitem
  • subparagraph
  • subsection