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Re: Proposed: a TN tag to join TH and TD?

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jun 11, 2013 7:57AM

My apologies - I think the listserv kills attachments. Here's the screen-shot I sent in the previous mail on this subject:

http://duff-johnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TN-cell-example.png

> Interesting idea, Duff.
> But what's "no-op" mean?

Sorry - blame the developers for that one!

"no-op" = no operation, or "intentionally blank".

> Just to clarify, you're describing cells that only exist to keep the table's
> column/row structure intact, not to contain data.

Exactly so.

> You're not talking about cells that:
> - have a value of 0 for the data.
> - data for that cell isn't available.

Correct, these cases would "not* be TN cases.

> - data is n/a, not appropriate for that row/column.

This one - as described - is more ambiguous. It might well be TN (see the example I sent earlier).

TN is a cell type, not whole rows/columns. Of course, you could have a row of TN cells - uninteresting from a semantic point of view, so "intentionally left blank" seems appropriate.

Duff.