Re: combined CALS/HTML table model

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

I looked, but I was unable to find the actual
changes to the DocBook DTD to support HTML tables,
per the decision in April to accept them.
Can anyone point me to the DTD changes?
Thanks.


Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:54:01AM -0600, Paul Grosso wrote:
> At 19:14 2003 03 19 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >I'm still not able to post to docbook-tc.
> >Is it working for others?  Anyway, this
> >message is mostly for Paul.
> 
> I'm replying to the list--not sure it will work, but we'll see.
> 
> >Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:11:05 -0800
> >From: Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>
> >To: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org
> >Subject: combined table model
> >
> >
> >Paul,
> >I would like to go over the combined HTML/CALS table
> >model again in detail.  In your message from April 2002:
> >
> >http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200204/msg00002.html
> >
> >(has it really been that long?), you attached
> >a zip file that contained a proposed DTD mod for
> >the combined table models.  Is that the last 
> >version you did?  I see that it is based on DocBook 4.1.2
> >instead of 4.2 (it's missing blockinfo and
> >textobject, for example).
> 
> 
> Yes, this is the relevant message and is the latest.
> 
> I just checked it against 4.2, and it compiles, but there may
> be things in these modules that will need to be updated for 4.2
> (I haven't looked into it).
> 
> The way I "modularized" things was designed to highlight the 
> "pedigree" of the code and allow it to work with a minimum of 
> changes to the original modules, and I'm not suggesting that 
> is the way to organize it if/when we put this into DocBook.
> 
> I did use an SGML/XML parser, so my code does have one non-XML
> SGML-ism in it.  In bothtables.mod, the defn of %Flow; needs
> to have an asterisk added after the close paren to make it XML.
> 
> paul
> 
> 
> 

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Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
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