DOCBOOK: Re: example of Element <tgroup> with it's attribute cols .

[Chuck Amadi <chuck.amadi@breconbeacons.org>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

>/ Chuck Amadi <chuck.amadi@breconbeacons.org> was heard to say:
>| How do i get this bugger to work (cols attribute ) I mean I have a
>| table with three columns and three rows using the
>
>The table you provided is invalid in about six different ways. Always use
>a validating parser to check your work before feeding it to the stylesheets.
>GIGO applies.
>
>Try this:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
>                  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";>
><article id="article">
><title>Table Test</title>
>
><itemizedlist>
><listitem>
><para>ndw: do you really want this table in a list item?</para>
><table>
><title>ndw: You have to put a title in here</title>
><!-- attribute center doesn't work --> <!-- ndw: in what implementation? -->
><tgroup align="center" cols="3">
><tbody>
><row>
><entry>first column</entry>
><entry>second column</entry>
><entry>third column</entry>
></row>
><row>
><entry>
><!-- This link doesn't work within this table only the watsup text -->
><!-- ndw: i bet it works now, with more reasonable looking table entry markup -->
><ulink url="http://watsupwiththis.htm";>watsup </ulink>
></entry>
></row>
></tbody>
></tgroup>
></table>
></listitem>
></itemizedlist>
>
></article>
>
>
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
>
Cheers I'm looking at it now !!

Thanx again as with other Newsgroups I seem to get good guidance and 
follow up's (enough brown noising ) back to work.

-- 
Regards 
Chuck Amadi
ICT Dept Systems Programmer
Rhaglenydd Systemau Adran ICT