Re: Data Table Collections (Research)

On Sep 9, 2007, at 13:43, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> Although maybe you could add an additional requirement that a  
> header cell for a given cell needs to span the same columns (or  
> more) for it to become a header cell for that cell (also, not same  
> amount of columns, the same columns). This would also help with the  
> Thesis example from Henri.

That's not quite right. You could reasonably have a cell spanning two  
columns and both columns having single-column header cells. In that  
case, it is quite reasonable to associate the wide cell with both.

I suggest experimenting with a rule that a cell doesn't get  
associated with any column headers if the cell spans a column that  
has no header. (And analogously for rows.)

Consider:

<table>
<tr><th>Label 1<td>Data 1
<tr><td colspan=2>Headerless cell
<tr><th>Label 2<td>Data 2
<table>

vs.

<table>
<tr><th>Label 1<th>Label 2
<tr><td colspan=2>Data 1a and Data 2a
<tr><td>Data 1b<td>Data 2b
<table>

For reference, the "Thesis example" Anne is referring to is
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/thesis/html5-conformance-checker#abstract

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/