Paul Novitski wrote:
> At 3/6/2007 05:51 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
>>      President..................................John Smith
>>      Vice-president.........................Janet Jones
>>
>> In other words, the items in the two columns line up horizontally,
>> and the cell on the left is filled out with dots.
>> </quote>

> The example you present here is clearly two-column tabular data
> (whether marked up as a table or not).
> We live in that golden universe where markup and presentation are
> very (never completely) separate.  The question of whether your table
> of officers is tabular data (duh) is independent of how it's
> presented.
> Is anyone actually suggesting that the presence or
> absence of the dots influences the determination of the semantic
> structure of the information?

Forget about how it should be marked up or presented, the "issue" is about
*defining* what tabular data is.
What's your definition of tabular data? Actually, what if there was only one
row for our example?
Would you consider marking up the following with a table?

President..................................John Smith

What for you makes a list of "name/value" pairs tabular data?

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Regards,
Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com



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