Re: Extra table markup (was Re: BOF meeting to discuss XHTML and spec-prod at the W3C working group event at the end of February?)

/ Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org> was heard to say:
| Paul Grosso wrote:
| 
| >  Perhaps the stylesheet
| >  could be modified to avoid this sometimes, but given that the
| >  authoritative version is the XML and the HTML is generated, I'm
| >  a little uncertain what harm is done by the extra markup.
| 
| Removing the optional elements thead and tbody and the default
| values rowspan="1" colspan="1" would save 9k [1] of file size
| in the three parts of XML Schema taken together. 

The thead and tbody elements have structural significance. I think
removing them to save 9k out of 1.4M (a savings of 0.0006% if I'm
not mistaken) is unwarranted. :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Received on Wednesday, 17 January 2001 05:25:06 UTC