RE: Tables now supported

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Abdin [mailto:aliabdin@aucegypt.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:30 PM
> To: John Fleck
> Cc: gnome-doc-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Tables now supported
> 
> * John Fleck (jfleck@inkstain.net) wrote at 02:11 on 09/08/00:
> > Ali -
> > 
> > I tried my hand at a patch to handle the informaltable, row 
> and entry tags.
> > 
> > I'm still not sure if I'm doing the diff right, but I did a cvs -z3
> > diff -u as you suggested, and am attaching the file for your
> > consideration.
> > 
> > Let me know if this is more trouble that it is worth for you, but it
> > is fun for me... :)
> 
> Well - After extensive hacking, (inspired by a patch from 
> John Fleck) I have
> got Tables working with gnome-db2html2. It was based on John 
> Fleck's patch,
> but I fixed some issues with it, and added a shitload of 
> stuff on top of it :)

YAY!

[snip]

> I have some questions though:
> 
> 1) What does the <tgroup> tag do? I ignore it for now, and 
> everything seems to
> work fine. Jade also 'seems' to ignore it.

http://www.DocBook.org/tdg/html/tgroup.html

Check out the section on "Processing expectations" for the sort of info that
you want.
I think that <tgroup> is designed for grouping sections of a very large,
very complex table together.  I don't have anything that complex handy.  Is
anybody using <tgroup>?

> 2) What is the difference between an <informaltable> and 
> <table> - From what I
> understand <informaltable> doesn't have a title and has a 
> 'slightly' different
> HTML tag than <table>

<informaltable> does not have a title while 
<table> has title
That's it.

> 3) Can <table> have an id attribute? (i.e. <table 
> id="table1">) What about
> <informaltable>, can it have an id attribute?

No, both table types cannot have ID attributes. 

> I would also like to know of any bugs you encounter with 
> table support. I've
> only really tested it on the kernel-locking.sgml file telsa 
> provided me with.
> (Note: I have table support on my local tree only - you will 
> have to wait
> until I check it into CVS)

Let us know when it's checked in, I did manage to compile it once, but that
was months ago.  I'd like to try it out on a couple of non-gnome documents
as well, just to see what it does.  :-)  You might want to keep a link to
http://www.DocBook.org/tdg/html/docbook.html handy, it has links to an
explanation of each of the DocBook elements.  It's a good reference, but
somewhat boring to read.  :-)  Later,
	Greg