At 2:26 PM -0500 11/30/01, Norman Walsh wrote: >Unfortunately, HTML tables and CALS tables share some common element >names, so they cannot easily coexist. > >There appear to be two solutions: > >1. Use namespaces. >
Yuck. >2. Force the user to make a top-level choice by having, effectively, > two DTDs. This would mean a document could contain *either* HTML tables > *or* CALS tables, but not both. > Double yuck. I personally had no trouble whatsoever with the tables as they exist in Docbook today. I favor the status quo with no change, but if we must change then use namespaces. That's what they're there for. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
