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Subject: Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk> was heard to say: | At 15:27 18/03/2003 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote: | |>How is the author supposed to indicate to the DocBook stylesheets |>what color background they would like for a given cell? Would |>you feel that <td role="green-background"> is more in keeping |>with the DocBook precedent? | | No, but if I had | <td role="glump"> | | I could use css to style it green? You could. But I've seen lots of tables where there are color and other style choices that are much more aesthetic than they are logical. I think the point Paul made in another message is relevant: tables already contain a fair amount of presentational information (column width, spans, column rules, row rules, borders, etc.) You could argue that role="glump" implied certain border settings or a particular column width, but users would find this cumbersome. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Nearly every complex solution to a http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | programming problem that I have Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | looked at carefully has turned out | to be wrong.--Brent Welch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+d6HcOyltUcwYWjsRArBoAJ9HLEwwm0S7MFEmoh0dWKvNmdYG8ACeLzJ5 ImFcfz1dUfHlSpLV0XuBQAk= =U6IS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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