RE: [docbook-apps] pgwide support with Docbook 5

[Barton Wright <bwright@streambase.com>]

Bob,

We have come to opposite conclusions from the same facts. It appears more logical that the four attributes you list are deliberately missing from informaltable-HTML and are incorrectly present in table-HTML and should be removed.

The reason is that none of those attributes are also attributes of the HTML <table> element. Isn't the whole point of supporting HTML tables in DocBook to re-use the existing HTML table standard?

The proof is in the DocBook XSL. Try making a DB 5 document that contains a table-HTML using the pgwide="1" attribute. The document will validate fine, but on transformation to HTML, no pgwide attribute is passed to the HTML <table> element, and the table shows up with its default width. By contrast, add width="100%" and you get the pgwide effect as desired.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] 
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:13 PM
To: Chris Ridd
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] pgwide support with Docbook 5

Thanks for the additional info. It seems informaltable (HTML) is missing pgwide, tabstyle, floatstyle, and orient, which are available on table (both HTML and CALS) and informaltable (CALS).  I think this may be an oversight, so I filed a bug report regarding the missing table attributes on informaltable (HTML). We will see what the DocBook Technical Committee says.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Ridd" <chrisridd@mac.com>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] pgwide support with Docbook 5


>
> On 19 Mar 2011, at 01:31, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>> pgwide is permitted on table, both CALS and HTML tables. Here is the definitive 
>> guide:
>>
>> http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/cals.table.html
>>
>> I looked in the DTD and the RelaxNG schema, and see pgwide available on table.  How 
>> did you conclude that it was not permitted?
>
> XXE reported it as invalid.
>
> I think we are using HTML tables, not CALS tables. 
> <http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/html.informaltable.html> has no pgwide.
>
> Maybe HTML tables were a tactical mistake on our part!
>
> Chris
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