Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

[...]
> Now there are HTML tables and everyone understands them. The ratio of
> CALS users to HTML users must be approaching zero by this point.
> 
> As a consequence, other schemas are now adopting HTML tables instead
> of CALS. For example, the IDEAlliance DTD for the XML conferences now
> uses HTML instead of CALS.
> 
> If we were starting over, I don't think any convincing argument could
> be made for adopting CALS in favor of HTML.
> 
> The question is, should we be flexible and allow HTML tables in
> DocBook so that users migrating to DocBook don't have to do any mental
> gymnastics to get their tables working?


Yes :)


Tobi

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