Multiple table footnotes

Hi everyone,
 
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I have a question about footnotes that I hope someone will be able to help
steer me in the right direction. In dealing with footnotes that appear in
both the body of the document, as well as in several tables, how does one
keep each table's footnote numbering and count separate from the footnote
numbering and count in the main body of the document, and from other table
footnote schemes (assuming you were using one tag - Footnote - for all
footnotes regardless of where they appeared in a document; also, != DocBook
if that's required info)? 
 
In the XML content I'm transforming, we're taking some non-tabular content
and putting them into tables during the transform. I'm stumped on how to
handle similarly-tagged footnotes in such newly-created tables so that they
have their own, independant numbering structure, with footnotes placed below
their respective tables.
 
Thanks much for your thoughts on this,
 
Mike
 
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