[Bug 9708] New: Remove step 20 from 'Forming a table' section ("table model error")

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9708

           Summary: Remove step 20 from 'Forming a table' section ("table
                    model error")
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: a.kuckartz@ping.de
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


Copied from http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=742 :

"I see error messages such as this one for HTML5 code:
Error: Table column 4 established by element col has no cells beginning in it.

I think that this should raise a warning, not an error message."

Reply by Michael(tm) Smith:

"In the 'Forming a table' section of the HTML5 spec, see step 20: 'If there
exists a row or column in the table containing only slots that do not have a
cell anchored to them, then this is a table model error.'"

Error message "element col has no cells beginning in it"
http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=742

This in some cases makes it very difficult to migrate old applications to
HTML5.

In HTML4 one could output a grid using <col>-tags and then generate and output
the table rows one by one without. According to the current step 20 one now has
to walk thru all rows before the <col>-grid can be generated and output.

Is there any *compelling* need for step 20 ("table model error") in the
'Forming a table' section ?

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Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 10:02:52 UTC