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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: recursive table?
The only thing that DocBook "explicitly prevents" is inserting a table element within a table. You can embed a table within another table by creating your own "embedded table" element. Of course, as with any tag you create, it's up to you to worry about the formatting (which may not be all that difficult). Dave Hintz At 10:57 AM 12/13/1999 -0500, you wrote: >/ Chang Liu <liu@ics.uci.edu> was heard to say: >| Is there a way to embed a table within another table in DocBook? >| In HTML, tables can appear in a cell of other tables. I tried to >| do the same thing in DocBook but can't pass the compiler. Is >| this feature supported? > >No. It is explicitly prevented. You can put 'entrytbl's inside >'entry's, but that's only a single level. > >In general, nested tables are very, very difficult to format. >(HTML "succeeds" because it provides only fairly coarse controls >on table formatting.) > > Cheers, > norm > >-- >Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Always do one thing less than you >http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | think you can do.--Bernard Baruch >Member, DocBook Editorial Board | =================================================================== David L. Hintz Metaphase Technology Division Senior Software Engineer Structural Dynamics Research Corp. Technical Communications Group 4233 N. Lexington Ave., Suite 3290 Phone: 651/482-4156 Arden Hills, MN 55126-6198 Fax: 651/482-4001 mailto:DLH@MetaphaseTech.com ===================================================================
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