RE: [oic] Advisory 00007 - Table Rows / Table Columns

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

Coming back to 00007 itself,

(1) There is nothing wrong with the schema provisions for <table:table-rows> and <table:table-columns>.

(2) The advisory is a little confusing about where those elements are permitted.  

(3) The advisory should clarify that <table:table-rows> and <table:table-columns> are permitted anywhere the direct <table:table-row> and <table:table-column> elements are permitted *except* within <table:table-header-rows> and <table:table-header-columns> elements.

(4) The <table:table-rows> and <table:table-columns> elements have no attributes and their groupings of individual -row/-column elements has no significance.  

(5) Recommendations for Consumers: that schema-defined occurrences be accepted and be supported where <table:table> is supported.

(6) Recommendation for the ODF TC is to correct the wording to remove meaning with regard to headers and simply point out that they cannot be used within table-header-rows/-columns elements.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 16:14
To: 'Andreas J. Guelzow'; 'oic@lists.oasis-open.org'
Subject: RE: [oic] Advisory 00007 - Table Rows / Table Columns

OK, I did a more careful analysis of the ODF 1.0 Schema and specifications.  

(I was confusing groups and the collection of rows into <table:table-rows> elements.)

There is a wording problem in ODF 1.0 and I didn't check how it carries over into ODF 1.2.

THE LIMITATION ON <table:rows> and <table:columns>.

In effect, the situation is as follows:

Any sequence of one or more consecutive <table:table-row> elements can be incorporated in a single <table:table-rows> element, except within a <table:table-header-rows> element.

Any sequence of one or more consecutive <table:table-column> elements can be incorporated in a single <table:table-columns> element, except wthin a <table:table-header-columns> element.

The choice to use <table:rows> and <table:columns> is arbitrary.  They are heavily used in the examples in ODF 1.0 and it is clear that these are to clarify the human comprehension of the examples.  The elements have no attributes and serve no function.

The correct statement is that those elements (and groups) cannot be used within table:table-header-rows/-columns elements.  It actually has nothing to do with whether headers are repeated or not.  

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