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Re: Draft text for summary attribute definition

From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:28:39 +0100
Message-ID: <49AAB7B7.3060002@malform.no>
To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
Philip TAYLOR 2009-03-01 17.05:
> 
> 
> Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps we should say that it is meaningless to a have separate 
>> caption element. It would be better to have a @caption attribute of 
>> <table> so that authors understsand for certain that caption is 
>> related to the table.
> 
> If caption were not an element in its own right, it
> could not contain embedded markup.

Right. But it would have been much simpler to link - as well as 
*separate* - caption and summaary if they both were attributes of 
<table> !!!
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leif halvard silli
Received on Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:29:20 GMT

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