Re: [docbook] Re: XHTML tables; examples

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:

[...]
>>><section>
>>> <title>Languages</title>
>>>   <table
>>>     summary="This table charts some programming languages,
>>>     and lists their notation, main paradigm, notation, and domain.">
>>>     <caption>My favourite programming languages.</caption>
>>>     <tr>
>>>
>>Yes.
>>
> HTML tables guys, you don't mean this really seriously? You are
> proposing that some tables will have title specified in <title> and
> others in <caption>?


The title above is the title of the section, not of the table (as should 
be obvious). It's just an example; there could be content between the 
section title and the table.

caption is not a title element.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.2
"When present, the CAPTION element's text should describe the nature of 
the table."

Headings/titles in XHTML are handled via h1-h6. In XHTML you could write

<h2>Languages</h2>
<table>
<caption>My favourite programming languages.</caption>

> This will make DocBook very inconsistent. All
> elements will have title specified in <title> and only tables (when used
> HTML ones) will use <caption>. 


caption is not a title, but a description. You can add a title if you 
want, via the DocBook element named title.


> I can understand you arguments for inclusion of HTML table model,


This is great!

> but I
> think that drawbacks of this solution will outweigh benefits. 


This one I can't see.

Tobi

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