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Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:49:30 -0400: "Brian M. Scott"
<b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
>>>You'll continue to talk at cross purposes until you realize
>>>that 'table' is not just a data-processing concept. A great
>>>many of the uses to which HTML tables are put, for instance,
>>>do not produce anything that Peter would call a table.
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>> Probably, yes. So what would he call them?
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>The ones that I specifically had in mind come under the
>generally heading of formatting tools; unlike tables in the
>traditional sense, they aren't part of the content at all.
But the content of those tables is part of the content?
Is the big table I use in
http://www.rudhar.com/foneport/en/foneport.htm not a real table and
not part of the content? How else should I have presented this, if I
wanted to stick to what tables are supposed to really be?
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