Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

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/ Dave Pawson <dpawson at nildram dot co dot uk> was heard to say:
| At 15:27 18/03/2003 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote:
|
|>How is the author supposed to indicate to the DocBook stylesheets
|>what color background they would like for a given cell?  Would
|>you feel that <td role="green-background"> is more in keeping
|>with the DocBook precedent?
|
| No, but if I had
| <td role="glump">
|
| I could use css to style it green?

You could. But I've seen lots of tables where there are color and
other style choices that are much more aesthetic than they are
logical.

I think the point Paul made in another message is relevant: tables
already contain a fair amount of presentational information (column
width, spans, column rules, row rules, borders, etc.)

You could argue that role="glump" implied certain border settings or a
particular column width, but users would find this cumbersome.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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