Subject: Re: Draft table spec
From: Jeffry Smith (smith@missioncriticallinux.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 07:39:05 CST
Martin Sevior said:
> Hi Jeffry,
> As Leonard said thanks for doing the work to get this started. I
> have a major overiding concern based the presnet Abi structure.
>
> Each cell in a table must be container of some sort. This means it must be
> a type of type <section> with extra attributes attached. <section
> tableid="12345678" type="table" nrows="10" row="1".... (your stuff goes
> here) > </section>
I'm a little lost here. I thought a section was like a <div> in HTML.
Example: I have a part of a document that contains a bunch of wide tables,
some images, and footnotes. I decide to print that part in landscape mode,
with the rest of the document in portrait. That section would be a <section>.
Can sections nest?
In terms of what's in a cell (<td></td> wrapper), I believe as I proposed, it
should be anything you want, including another document (don't know why you
would want to, but I believe we don't want to constrain the actual contents of
a cell). If what I proposed doesn't do that, I'm willing to see it changed,
because it should.
>
> We can then generalize the Abi layout structure to handle many containers
> on the screen. We can have pages with differing numbers of columns in
> different sections already. So although it will be hard work to make this
> handle tables, I think it is the best way to use the existing code base.
>
> You can try this with a debug build by inserting section breaks and
> setting the column number inside each section.
I'll try that, although I just discovered my 0.7.12 download seems to be
corrupted (probably a download failure, not an error at abisource - I'll try a
new download).
>
> So I think we need to place table descriptions inside <section> tags.
>
> Does this make sense?
See above.
jeff
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