Re: [xsl] OT: HTML and tables (was Re: [xsl] First character in a word as capital-letter.)

["Joris Gillis" <roac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tempore 17:00:58, die 09/13/2005 AD, hinc in xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Nick Fitzsimons <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:


> As the example given:
>
> <xsl:variable name="table-heading">
>         <tr>
>                 <td><b>Date</b></td>
>                 <td><b>Home Team</b></td>
>                 <td><b>Away Team</b></td>
>                 <td><b>Result</b></td>
>         </tr>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> is clearly the heading of a table of results, it's perfectly valid to use
> table markup _in_this_case_: that's what table-related tags (standardised
> in HTML 3.2) are for.
You got me wrong;-)
Of course it's normal to use 'table' elements here; it would be insane not to use table markup in this case.

Your assumptions below express what I meant:
> I assumed that the original objection was to using
> <td> tags (stands for "table data") when it should obviously be <th> -
> "table header".
>
> In addition, using <b> tags for emboldening the text would be irrelevant
> if the correct <th> tag was used, as old browser default styles usually
> emboldened the contents of <th> tags anyway.

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