wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld <> wrote on Tue, 20 Jan 2009
> 09:51:23 -0500:
>
>> <foil template="my-two-column-template">
>> <block name="left">
>> <itemizedlist/>
>> </block>
>> <block name="right">
>> <mediaobject/>
>> </block>
>> <block name="footer"/>
>> </foil>
>
> I see. Not bad. However, I would prefer to avoid element grammar to
> depend on attributes because this is not generally the way DocBook
> does it.
>
> This sort of layout can in principle be achieved using DocBook tables
> (CALS or HTML style), which is what I do, but it is unwieldy and
> cumbersome to adjust.
It is not semantic, it is inaccessible for non-visual users
and plain bad XML IMHO.
>
> Perhaps one way forward would be to think about simplified markup for
> tabular layouts whose semantics are inspired by tables
-1
>
> This would yield intuitive semantics, and stylesheets might reuse much
> of the table-related code.
-1
regards
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