[Gary Cornelius] Table Simplification

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

Forwarded for Gary.

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• From: "Gary Cornelius" <gary@cornelius.bz>
• Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:58 -0000

Hi Norman,

I got a bounce from the list email so mailed to you, can you forward if
appropriate!..

I would like to propose replacing Cals and XHTML tables in Docbook with a
more simplified 'block and frame' model?... I have found it pretty do-able
on a number of fairly complex projects to use a more simplified block model
for authoring and then map to multiple tables/grid formats on output!! 

I believe a 'block and frame' model could be more easily mapped into full
Cals, XHTML tables, div+CSS tables, WordML tables etc. at the output stage
by using modern stylesheets such as XSLT 2.0 ( although it is necessary to
work at adding a number of attributes to this basic model below!! ):

<frame cols="6" rows="6" class="sunrise">
  <block cols="1" rows="1">[...]</block>
  <block cols="1" rows="1" valign="bottom">[...]</block>
  <block name="box1" cols="1" rows="1" align="right">[...]</block>
  [...]
</frame>

Kind Regards

Gary

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