Re: XHTML tables; examples

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

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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