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Re: DTD XML and CSS combo

From: David Dorward <dorward@-----.--->
To: NULL
Date: 2/1/2006 8:39:00 PM
cometaj@c... wrote:

> I am having trouble figuring out how to emulate html table behavior as
> far as colspan and rowspan goes with my CSS on the XML I am working
> with.

With current CSS - you can't. Work doesn't appear to have started for the
module that might be able to do it in CSS 2.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work#tables

> It actually looks like a table but the colspan and rowspan does not seem
> to influence the behavior of cells at the rendering engine level. 

They wouldn't - there's nothing magic about the attribute names.

> Do I have to take care of this myself at the CSS level? 

Yes.

> If this is the case, how do I go about doing that?

Wait until CSS supports it :)

You are probably better off transforming the XML into HTML 4.01 Strict
before serving it up to web browser clients.

-- 
David Dorward       <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>   <http://dorward.me.uk/>
                     Home is where the ~/.bashrc is


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