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Section 19.2 <figure>

To provide a number and caption for an <image>, the <figure> element is used. Notice that the <caption> is authored at the beginning of the <figure> but is displayed below the <figure>’s content.
Listing 19.2.1. Code to include a figure
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<figure xml:id="fig-graph">
  <caption>A small graph (from <pubtitle>Applied
  Combinatorics</pubtitle> by Keller and
  Trotter)</caption>
  <image source="small-graph" width="20%"/>
</figure>
The code in Listing 19.2.1 produces the following output:
Figure 19.2.2. A small graph (from Applied Combinatorics by Keller and Trotter)
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