An issue to be examined in general hypermedia
authoring style (that may or may not be important
to application such as HTML that fix style), is
when is a table required? A table is a spatial
index of multi-dimensional relationships. Other
than satisfying a requirement to put all the
information and these relationships in a single
*display at a glance*, it does not encode the
relationships well. Separating the visual
arrangment characteristics from the element types
helps the reuse of the information and
the ability of hypertext to encode relationships
as links have traditionally been methods for
disentangling complex tables. Unfortunately,
hypermedia based on fixed DTDs such as HTML
are deprived by design of some of these techniques.
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