Re: DOCBOOK: XHTML tables

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Well you have proposed using HTML tables in their own namespaces.

This could be one way to incorporate the table model; each of the 
various ways has it's own pro/con balance. I'd be OK with several 
different ways.

> You will either need to prefix all HTML table elements and you
> wouldn't be then able to cut'n'paste from HTML.

It's trivial to cut and paste, then add the prefix via search and 
replace, eg

  :%s/<\(\/\?\)tr\(\_s*\)/<\1h:tr\2/g

etc, then cut and paste into DocBook (or do via some tiny script you can 
run each time). But c'n'p is not the most important reason for inclusion 
anyways, from my POV.

> <html:table xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
>   <html:tr>
>     <html:td>Cell with <emphasis>emphasized words</emphasis></html:td>
>   </html:tr>
> </html:table>

  xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
can be set on the root element and/or be set (via "fixed") from the DTD. 
(see the SVG DTD)

Then write:

<h:table>
  <h:tr>
    <h:td>Cell with <emphasis>emphasized words</emphasis></html:td>
  </h:tr>
</h:table>

[... default ns example ...]

> Which style from these two did you preffer?  Or do you have any other
> solution which won't be as complex?

Prefixing each element might be one way offering most control from the 
DTD, but I'd be OK with any of the ways you showed.

Tobi

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