- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:32:21 -0400
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
It is fairly common to sort tabular data by multiple columns -- implicitly creating nested rowgroups. Neither colgroup nor any of the rowgroup instantiations (tbody, thead, tfoot) can nest. In the past, this was needed for backwards compatibility -- colgroup elements were implicitly closed by the next colgroup. In XHTML 2.0, all elements will have closing tags, so it is possible to distinguish a nested colgroup from an adjacent one. Given this, I believe nested colgroups and (rowgroups) should be permitted. -jJ
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