Re: [docbook] Re: XHTML tables; examples

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Tobias Reif wrote:
>
> > caption is not a title element.
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.2
> > "When present, the CAPTION element's text should describe the nature of
> > the table."
> >
> > Headings/titles in XHTML are handled via h1-h6. In XHTML you could write
> I was talking about table title, not section title.


There is no table title in the example you are commenting on.

If there would be one, it cold look like

<section><title>[section title]</title>
  <para>foo</para>
  <section><title>[table-section title]</title>
    <table>
      <caption>[desc]</caption>

or the schema could even allow

<section><title>[section title]</title>
  <para>foo</para>
  <table><title>[table title]</title>
    <caption>[desc]</caption>
    <tr>...

Would that be OK for you? I think it looks good.
(My example was just that; not a proposal.)

You wrote:
"You are proposing that some tables will have title specified in <title> 
and others in <caption>? "

No, we don't. caption is not a title.

> Semantic of
> table/title in DocBook is same as table/caption in (X)HTML.


Nope:

table/title

tdg-en-html-2.0.7/tdg/en/html/title.html
"The text of the title of a section of a document or of a formal 
block-level element"

table/caption

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.2
"When present, the CAPTION element's text should describe the nature of 
the table."

> That's the
> place of ambiguity and inconsistence.


If the content of table/title would not be a title but a description as 
you state, then there would indeed be ambiguity and inconsistence, in 
that document.


Tobi


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