The DocBook Technical Committee has been discussing this for several recent meetings. At this point the committee is not supporting HTML tables in DocBook, for the reasons described in the last set of minutes[1]. It will be considered again in the next meeting on 18 March.
[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200301/msg00015.html
"Norm: If we were starting over, I don't think there'd be much support for CALS over HTML."
I agree. I think I'd be much happier with a DocBook which includes the XHTML table model. Simple to write, simple to process, familiar to many.
(Perhaps you could forward this vote to the TC :)
Tobi
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