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Re: [docbook] Re: XHTML tables; examples
Jirka Kosek wrote:
Tobias Reif wrote:
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
I was talking about table title, not section title.
There is no table title in the example you are commenting on.
If there would be one, it cold look like
<section><title>[section title]</title>
<para>foo</para>
<section><title>[table-section title]</title>
<table>
<caption>[desc]</caption>
or the schema could even allow
<section><title>[section title]</title>
<para>foo</para>
<table><title>[table title]</title>
<caption>[desc]</caption>
<tr>...
Would that be OK for you? I think it looks good.
(My example was just that; not a proposal.)
You wrote:
"You are proposing that some tables will have title specified in <title>
and others in <caption>? "
No, we don't. caption is not a title.
Semantic of
table/title in DocBook is same as table/caption in (X)HTML.
Nope:
table/title
tdg-en-html-2.0.7/tdg/en/html/title.html
"The text of the title of a section of a document or of a formal
block-level element"
table/caption
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."
That's the
place of ambiguity and inconsistence.
If the content of table/title would not be a title but a description as
you state, then there would indeed be ambiguity and inconsistence, in
that document.
Tobi
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