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Subject: Some thoughts about tables...
Hello,
Just some thoughts about tables and why they are so hard to deal with… It might be pretty basic, but I think it's helpful to review this from time to time.
For this type of thing, you don't need to encode it as a table in your XML. You create a specialization for this kind of information, and it goes into your DTD, i.e. your local version of DITA. You encode the info using the DTD's tags that indicate the kind of information it is. You later can render it as a table, since that's often the best way to present this kind of thing. Since you know what the information is, and what it normally "looks like", you can define the table column widths and so on ahead of time, as part of your XSLT, which also gives you uniformity in presentation across all your documents.
Regards,
Seraphim
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