Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

At 14:38 18/03/2003 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote:
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>Personally, I'd have a hard time taking background color and fixed
>height rows away from users.

Heck, why not Paul. Docbook fully supports that separation?

>   While I could live with omitting some
>of the presentation attributes, that seems too confusing.  Since tables
>by definition already have a fair number of presentation attributes even
>in the "strict" version, I see no harm in using the transitional version
>of the XHTML 1.0 table model [2].

I'd support strict anytime.

regards DaveP.