Re: tree behavior without @role="wairole:group" for subordination?

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:59:33 +0200, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org> wrote:

...
> I want to claim failure.  I'm just not developing my script skills fast enough.
> So I am going to describe an approach in words and see if someone else
> cares to a) explain why it won't work or b) show that it does with
> a working example.
>
> First, why?
>
> It arose out of the idea of a "tree grid."  This is a common feature.  It
> is something where there are several columns of information but the
> rows are grouped and show or hide as groups are expanded or collapsed,
> as indicate by the state of a row head cell (and the expand/collapse
> control in that cell).
>
> One can do this with a tree of DIVs and layout that emulates a table.
>
> But you can't do it with the group-using tree structure and HTML tables
> for the table layout (even if the data makes sense as a data table)
> because you can't slip the <div role="wairole:group"> around groups of
> <TR> elements.  One could support
> a single level of expand/collapse function with <tbody role="wairole:group">
> but then you can't nest those.
...

Just in passing, isn't this what the scope and axis stuff in HTML 4 is meant to provide?

cheers

Chaals

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