Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML

[maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu>]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:56:03 +1100, Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>
wrote:
> Although I have not yet checked, I believe the problem is that the
content
> of the cells is not in a <para>. That is, your DocBook should look like:
> 
>
<thead><row><entry><para>a1</para></entry><entry><para>a2</para></entry></row></thead>
>    
<tbody><row><entry><para>b1</para></entry><entry><para>b2</para></entry></row></tbody>

FWIW, the DocBook 5 standard explicitly allows for text inside <entry>s,
without a <para> tag:
   http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/entry.html#children
I believe earlier versions of DocBook also allowed "inline" elements,
including text; see the discussion of "Pernicious Mixed Content" here:
   http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/entry.html

  Mike Maxwell