XP> Removal of width attribute of table element in XHTML-Print

[Jun Fujisawa]

At 5:03 PM -0500 02.12.17, BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
>I'm proposing that we remove the width attribute from the table element in
>the XHTML-Print specification
>(http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/HTML-Version/XHTML-Print.html#s3.8).  The
>reason is that the textual description that contains the attribute was in
>error and the DTD that does not is correct.  See the full discussion below.

Please note that this error is well recognized by the W3C HTML Activity
Lead. I asked him to make sure the errata will be published.


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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:46:03 +0900
To: "BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1)" <jim.bigelow at hp.com>
From: Jun Fujisawa <fujisawa.jun at canon.co.jp>
Cc: www-html at w3.org
Subject: Re: Table element's width attribute in the basic table

Jim,

At 2:20 PM -0500 02.12.17, BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
>The Modularization of XHTML
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xhtml-modularization-20001020/) defines the
>attributes for the table element in section 5.6.1 Basic Tables Module
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xhtml-modularization-20001020/abstract_modules
>.html#s_simpletablemodule).  This section says that there is a width
>attribute for the table element. However, the DTD in F.3.5.1
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xhtml-modularization-20001020/dtd_module_defs.
>html#a_module_Basic_Tables) does not specify a width attribute.
>
>My question: which is right, is width an attribute of the table element or
>not? Since an author can use the width property, having a width element
>seems redundant.

This is an known error, and the 'table' element in Basic Tables Module does not
have 'width' attribute (i.e., the DTD is right).

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2002AprJun/0041.html>
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2002AprJun/0043.html>

I still cannot find errata for this, though.

<http://www.w3.org/2001/04/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410-errata>


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Jun Fujisawa
<mailto:fujisawa.jun at canon.co.jp>


--
Jun Fujisawa
<mailto:fujisawa.jun at canon.co.jp>