Re: HTML table model suggestion

Betty Harvey (harvey@navysgml.dt.navy.mil)
Thu, 30 Mar 95 18:18:03 EST

On Thu, 30 Mar 1995 weibel@oclc.org wrote:

> > why should we invent Yet Another Table Format when we could use a
> > subset of an existing one that is well established?
>
> This is the heart of the issue.
>
> Tables are complex, and their markup will necessarily be so as well.
> Unless the existing SGML model is demonstrably deficient, it would be
> folly to generate another.
>

Exactly, tables are complex, you can't get away from it. The "casual"
HTML user will not use tables in their HTML documents. Even a
simplified table model will result in a learning curve to the
HTML Author.

I vote for a UNIFIED table model. If it takes getting the HTML,
SGML & CALS communities in a room to fight it out, we need to
come to a consensus. It is to the benefit of all three communities.

Betty
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