Ah, yes, that's right. The informaltable model does not have
caption.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Grosso" <>
To: "Scott Hudson" <>; "Norman Walsh" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] Simplified DocBook
> At 10:42 2003 12 19 -0700, Scott Hudson wrote:
> >Hi Norm,
> >
> >according to the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, should our caption be set to
optional as well?
>
> In DocBook, a "table" (as opposed to an "informaltable") is formal
> and hence the title (aka caption) is required. I suspect that's
> why the caption is required in this case.
>
>
> ><!ELEMENT table
> > (caption?, (col*|colgroup*), thead?, tfoot?, (tbody+|tr+))>
> ><!ELEMENT caption %Inline;>
> ><!ELEMENT thead (tr)+>
> ><!ELEMENT tfoot (tr)+>
> ><!ELEMENT tbody (tr)+>
> ><!ELEMENT colgroup (col)*>
> ><!ELEMENT col EMPTY>
> ><!ELEMENT tr (th|td)+>
> ><!ELEMENT th %Flow;>
> ><!ELEMENT td %Flow;>
> >
> >
> >
> ><!ATTLIST table
> >%attrs;
> > summary %Text; #IMPLIED
> > width %Length; #IMPLIED
> > border %Pixels; #IMPLIED
> > frame %TFrame; #IMPLIED
> > rules %TRules; #IMPLIED
> > cellspacing %Length; #IMPLIED
> > cellpadding %Length; #IMPLIED
> > align %TAlign; #IMPLIED
> > bgcolor %Color; #IMPLIED
> > >
> >
> >
> >In sdocbookv1.1CR1, we currently have:
> >
> >
> ><!ENTITY % tbl.table.mdl "((title , (mediaobject+ | tgroup+)) | (caption
, (col* | colgroup*) , thead? , tfoot? , (tbody+ | tr+)))">
> >Also, should we allow the same attribute values?
>
> It sounds like you're referring to the caption attributes, but
> you show the table attributes above, so I'll try to answer for both.
>
> As far as I can tell, the only attribute we don't allow on caption
> that HTML 4.01 does is align, and that's a styling issue which is
> probably why Norm left it off.
>
> It doesn't appear that sdocbook is missing any of the HTML table
> attributes you list above.
>
> paul
>
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