Re: DOCBOOK: RFE 472229: Allow HTML Tables in DocBook

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:26 PM -0500 11/30/01, Norman Walsh wrote:

>Unfortunately, HTML tables and CALS tables share some common element
>names, so they cannot easily coexist.
>
>There appear to be two solutions:
>
>1. Use namespaces.
>

Yuck.

>2. Force the user to make a top-level choice by having, effectively,
>    two DTDs. This would mean a document could contain *either* HTML tables
>    *or* CALS tables, but not both.
>

Double yuck.

I personally had no trouble whatsoever with the tables as they exist 
in Docbook today. I favor the status quo with no change, but if we 
must change then use namespaces. That's what they're there for.
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