border attribute for table element in XHTML

Hi,

I want to know, why the border attribut for the element table is still defined
in the table module for XHTML. The HTML 4.01 recommendation [1] says:

[...]
  This attributes specifies the width (in pixels only) of the frame around
  a table
[...]

so for me this is a presentational attribut and should be removed from
(X)HTML. The presentational effect can be achieved with the CSS border
property.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#adef-border-TABLE

regards,
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Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://www.bjoernsworld.de