Re: [docbook] Simplified DocBook V1.1 informaltable HTML-style

Hussein Shafie <hussein@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I may have found a bug in the Simplified DocBook V1.1 DTD:
> A Simplified DocBook V1.1 informaltable, HTML-style, is required to have
> a caption child element.
> 
> Excerpts of sdocbook.dtd (the problem probably comes from
> sdocbook-custom.dtd, but it is clearer to show it in this file):
> ---
> <!ENTITY % informaltable.table.mdl
>       "((mediaobject+|tgroup+)
>           |(caption, (col*|colgroup*), thead?, tfoot?, (tbody+|tr+)))">
> <!ELEMENT informaltable (%informaltable.table.mdl;) >
> ---

That is definitely a bug. The content model for "full" DocBook
does not include Caption as a required child for HTML-style
Informaltable. And of course in the case of the HTML style, the
presence of the Caption is what distinguishes a formal table from
an informal one.

I believe Simplified is still an official work product of the
DocBook TC. So you should probably file a DocBook RFE requesting
that the problem be fixed.

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=21935&atid=384107

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