3.1.4 Tables and Lists
<table> contains information that is presented in tabular form in the original texts. The <table> element contains the attributes rows and cols, specifying the number of rows and columns in the table. Tables can take quite diverse shapes in the original pamphlets, from more loosely structured ones to very orderly ones. Tables that feature the attribute rend="boxed" have an actual frame; this implicitly means that their internal structure is also denoted by lines (e.g. MscB1718).
Tables without this attribute do not usually exhibit any linear divisions in the original. Irregular structure of tables has been captured in the electronic version by making use of empty rows and cells.
<row> marks one row within a table.
<cell> contains one cell of a table.
Both <row> and <cell> can contain the attribute role, which is either filled by "label" if the content is descriptive, heading-like, or by "data" if the content is new information.
Text PolA1731 provides an instance of an unframed table with somewhat irregular structure, which is to serve as an example here.
<P><TABLE ROWS="12" COLS="2"><ROW ROLE="label"><CELL ROLE="label">To <IT>Hanover Allyance</IT>.</CELL> <CELL
ROLE="label">To <IT>Vienna Allyance</IT>.</CELL></ROW>
<ROW ROLE="label"><CELL ROLE="label">Land Forces.</CELL> <CELL ROLE="label">Land Forces.</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>English</IT>, &horfill; 26,000.</CELL> <CELL><IT>Imperial</IT>, &horfill; 227,000.</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>French</IT>, &horfill; 160,000.</CELL> <CELL><IT>Prussian</IT>, &horfill; 70,000.</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>Dutch</IT>, &horfill; 50,000.</CELL> <CELL><IT>Spanish</IT>, &horfill; 60,000.</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>Hanoverians</IT>, &horfill; 22,000.</CELL> <CELL><IT>Muscovite</IT>, &horfill; 30,000,</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>Danes</IT>, &horfill; 24,000.</CELL> <CELL> </CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>Hessians</IT>, &horfill; 12,000.</CELL> <CELL> </CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL><IT>Swedes</IT>, &horfill; 10,000.</CELL> <CELL> </CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL>Sum total &horfill; 304,000.</CELL> <CELL>Sum total &horfill; 387,000,</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL> </CELL> <CELL>Deduct &horfill; 304,000.</CELL></ROW>
<ROW><CELL> </CELL> <CELL>To Ballance. &horfill; 83,000.</CELL></ROW></TABLE>
The vertical dividing line as well as the three horizontal lines have been ignored in the mark-up of this table.
While tables are comparatively easy to spot in the original texts, lists are more problematic. The question is what is to count as a list for mark-up purposes. There are very concise lists, e.g. of proper names or brief points to be treated in the following text, but there can be also more extensive listings with quite a lot of text. In the latter case, linguistic signals given by the author, such as 1., 2., or "First, ... Secondly...", play a role for encoding decisions, but there are also unnumbered lists.
The <list> element accordingly includes text that has been identified as a list of some nature. Lists can either take up a new line for every one of their items, or be contained within the running text. In the latter case, there will be a rend attribute specifying them to be of the type "run-on". Lists are further subdivided by <item> and, sometimes, <label> elements.
<item> contains one component part of a list.
<label> is found within an <item> and contains the marker identifying it, e.g. "I.", "II.".
An example for a short and numbered list is found in RelA1679:
Herein therefore consider:</P>
<LIST><ITEM><LABEL>1.</LABEL> <IT>The Preparations to</IT> Antichrists <IT>Comming</IT>.</ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>2.</LABEL> <IT>His after-appearing in the world</IT>.</ITEM>
</LIST>
The following list from EcA1681 is longer and, moreover, lacks a clear indication for the beginning of the list, which therefore had to be inferred by us:
<LIST REND="it"><ITEM><RO>Now it may be supposed, that if this Order were observed, it would prevent this inconvenience to the Clothier for the future</RO>, viz. That his Cloth being Sealed as aforesaid, the sworn Aulneager should also Measure every Mans Cloth so soon as it cometh out of the Mill, which Mea&rehy;sure might be expressed upon the Seal, by an Impression made in it to ex&rehy;press the same. Now the Cloth having this Seal annexed to it, and being bought in the Market, and sent out of the same at a Price agreed upon, that in this case the Buyer should be obliged to have this Cloth so bought in the Market at the same Price agreed upon there, and according to the Measure expressed upon the Seal.</ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><RO>2.</RO></LABEL> That if the Cloth, that hath this Town-Seal annexed to it, should in reality be any way faulty, yet nevertheless the Clothier should not be obliged to abate. But upon sufficient Testimony and Proof hereof the sworn Aul&rehy;neager should be severely punished.</ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><RO>3.</RO></LABEL> That as to such Cloth that is sealed with the Letter F, if the Buyer hath any Jealousie, that the Seller hath not discovered all the faults in the said Cloth, that then it might be Examined in the Hall or Market, where <PB N="14">there should be a Pearch for that purpose, where the Buyer might have the Liberty to refuse or take the said Cloth; but if he shall cause the said faul&rehy;ty Cloth to be sent out of the Market or Hall at a Price, that then the Buyer shall not have the liberty to refuse the said faulty Cloth, but shall be obliged to have it, let the faults be what they will.</ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL><RO>4.</RO></LABEL> It would be necessary that all Serges were at first Woven at one certain length, that so the Buyer might the better understand what it is that he doth buy, which now he doth not, because all Serges are sold by the Piece, and some want three or four yards of what some others are; And it would be necessary that they were all Woven of such a length, that after they are Milled in an ordinary manner, they might contain full twenty and four yards.</ITEM></LIST>
Some lists include a rend attribute "braced", which attempts to capture original layout of the following kind (LawA1668):
<P>And for the other Six, <IT>viz.</IT> </P>
<LIST REND="italic braced"><ITEM>John Earls,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Wilde,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Woodward,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Farrel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Richardson,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Ford.</ITEM></LIST>
<P>The Jury found them not guilty, ...
