> And speaking of XHTML 1.0, I was surprised to also find a lot of
> presentational attributes still left in the table-related elements
> (table, tr, th, td, col etc), even in strict. Surely width, border,
> cellspacing, cellpadding, valign, halign could have been expunged from
> strict?
> 

True, but unlike 'row' and 'col' for textarea which are required, all
attributes you have mentioned are implied [1].  What makes these different?
I agree that there should be NO presentation attributes in XHTML strict, but
if we are to have some why would they be required?

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd

Jough



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