FWIW, my interpretation of what constitutes tabular data relies on the meaning of the data being directly associated to its grid coordinates, i.e. the intersection of a column and row. The column coordinate + the row coordinate gives specific meaning to the data located at the intersection of these items.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: Thursday, 08 March, 2007 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] Talking about tabular data... 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? --- Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
