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Re: Complex tables: Scope AND id and header attributes

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 27, 2015 4:44PM

> We need better software tools that let us put these solutions into play right from the beginning, such as when the author is writing in MS Word. Not later in the workflow. Right from the beginning.

For complex tables, I envision a tool where you click/select the data cell you want to assign headers too and then you click/select each cell in order that you want to "label" that cell. Then you click "associate" and the tool adds the appropriate header attribute (and applies ids as needed). The tool could also predict cells that you might want headers and pre-select them for you. The tool could learn as you go -- to better predict what you might do for the next data cell.

Such a tool would be invaluable in PDF work and very useful in HTML.

For Word -- well we'd have to come to an agreed up attribute in the DOM/XML -- something I have not researched in a while. Header association in Word and Excel is something that needs to be taken seriously.

Jonathan

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