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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 5:05PM

>> My apologies - I think the listserv kills attachments. Here's the screen-shot I sent in the previous mail on this subject:
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>> http://duff-johnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TN-cell-example.png
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> In your example, I would argue that the table is a layout table, not a data table.

It's a data table - there are columns (for session tracks) and rows (for time-slots). I used a small slice for the screenshot.

> PDFs may not have CSS, but there must be some sort of structural language involved (tabs, background blocks) that could build this sort of layout without a table.

This table was created in InDesign using InDesign's table tool. It's a typical situation for a table… and that's sort of the point. This is the real world…

> I believe I understand the issue you are raising, but maybe you need a better example?


Ok…

Page two of this PDF it a table. It includes two cells in the first column that would qualify as "TN" cells under this suggestion.

http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Conference-EU-2013-flyer-final-2013-04-17-rev2.pdf

NOTE: I'm not advocating or defending the way this specific table is tagged - that's not (my) question here. Rather, I'm asking: what's the "right" way, notionally, to deal with this in HTML, if there is one, and if not, to ask: why not?

Duff.