MHonArc v2.5.0b2 -->
docbook-tc message
[Date Prev]
| [Thread Prev]
| [Thread Next]
| [Date Next]
--
[Date Index]
| [Thread Index]
| [List Home]
Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] Simplified DocBook
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
/ Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com> was heard to say:
| At 10:42 2003 12 19 -0700, Scott Hudson wrote:
|>Hi Norm,
|>
|>according to the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, should our caption be set to optional as well?
|
| In DocBook, a "table" (as opposed to an "informaltable") is formal
| and hence the title (aka caption) is required. I suspect that's
| why the caption is required in this case.
Precisely. Allowing "table" to appear without any kind of title would
make processing tables much more complicated. If you want a table
without a caption, use informaltable.
|>Also, should we allow the same attribute values?
Yes, and we do.
| As far as I can tell, the only attribute we don't allow on caption
| that HTML 4.01 does is align, and that's a styling issue which is
| probably why Norm left it off.
No, that was just an oversight. Sigh, I guess we have to add it.
Be seeing you,
norm
- --
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Opportunity is missed by most
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | people because it is dressed in
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | overalls and looks like
| work.--Thomas A. Edison
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/>
iD8DBQE/40NbOyltUcwYWjsRAlUXAKCXUFLzeZUOs3sU57EXr1jvfV3MpQCdG8x1
OzDx6pCQFsrhq62HnoCR5SI=
=SlYc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
[Date Prev]
| [Thread Prev]
| [Thread Next]
| [Date Next]
--
[Date Index]
| [Thread Index]
| [List Home]