Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]

[Dave Pawson <dpawson at nildram dot co dot uk>]

At 15:27 18/03/2003 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote:

> How is the author supposed to indicate to the DocBook stylesheets
> what color background they would like for a given cell?  Would
> you feel that <td role="green-background"> is more in keeping
> with the DocBook precedent?

No, but if I had
<td role="glump">

I could use css to style it green?


> >>  While I could live with omitting some
> >>of the presentation attributes, that seems too confusing.  Since tables
> >>by definition already have a fair number of presentation attributes even
> >>in the "strict" version, I see no harm in using the transitional version
> >>of the XHTML 1.0 table model [2].
> >
> >I'd support strict anytime.
>
> What harm do you see in having a bgcolor attribute on
> table cells in the version of the HTML table model that
> DocBook might incorporate?

I guess I'm being black and white Paul.
color=green is style, not markup.
I'm supporting fully the separation?

regards DaveP