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Re: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee MeetingMinutes:17 Dec 2002
- From: Steve Cogorno <cogorno at village dot eng dot sun dot com>
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>
- Cc: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:08:43 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee MeetingMinutes:17 Dec 2002
Paul Grosso said:
> >Currently there is only one element which many editors will insert
> >automatically for you. This is mostly tool issue, but quite important
> >IMHO. I'm also not sure whether WYSIWYG editors like Epic and XMetal are
> >able to dynamically recognize between CALS and HTML table models.
>
> Epic 4.3 already can handle both CALS and HTML tables in the same
> doctype/document, and the table editor does the right thing depending
> on what model the current table uses.
I'd argue that this is the perfect reason not to implement the change. If
Epic (and presumably other tools) can detect the different table models, it
should be trivial to transform an HTML model into CALS when pasted into a
DocBook document.
Steve Cogorno
Sun Microsystems