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Re: RFE 472229: Allow HTML Tables in DocBook
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:07:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: RFE 472229: Allow HTML Tables in DocBook
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- References: <87bshknjqi.fsf@nwalsh.com>
At 2:26 PM -0500 11/30/01, Norman Walsh wrote:
>Unfortunately, HTML tables and CALS tables share some common element
>names, so they cannot easily coexist.
>
>There appear to be two solutions:
>
>1. Use namespaces.
>
Yuck.
>2. Force the user to make a top-level choice by having, effectively,
> two DTDs. This would mean a document could contain *either* HTML tables
> *or* CALS tables, but not both.
>
Double yuck.
I personally had no trouble whatsoever with the tables as they exist
in Docbook today. I favor the status quo with no change, but if we
must change then use namespaces. That's what they're there for.
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