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[docbook] Re: XHTML tables; examples
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:10:32 +0100
- Subject: [docbook] Re: XHTML tables; examples
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030319082946.01d3eca8@172.27.10.30>
Paul Grosso wrote:
>
> At 12:27 2003 03 19 +0100, Tobias Reif wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >is this what it could look like?
> >
> ><section>
> > <title>Languages</title>
> > <table
> > summary="This table charts some programming languages,
> > and lists their notation, main paradigm, notation, and domain.">
> > <caption>My favourite programming languages.</caption>
> > <tr>
>
> Yes.
HTML tables guys, you don't mean this really seriously? You are
proposing that some tables will have title specified in <title> and
others in <caption>? This will make DocBook very inconsistent. All
elements will have title specified in <title> and only tables (when used
HTML ones) will use <caption>.
Tell me how should I explain this to DocBook newcomers? They will think
that DocBook is randomly collected tag set.
I can understand you arguments for inclusion of HTML table model, but I
think that drawbacks of this solution will outweigh benefits.
Jirka
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