A bit off topic - SGML

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>Unfortunately SGML does not use the same syntax as html in this context,
>and colspan does not work.

My (limited) understanding of SGML is that it depends
on the DTD. For example, HTML is like a DTD of SGML.
Is it DocBook? That uses <row><entry>... for tables.
In that case, here is an example:
http://www.ibiblio.org/godoy/sgml/docbook/howto/using-docbook.html#TABLES


>On 22 May 2002 at 16:11, David Kramer wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>
>> > I've got a simple sgml (not html) question,
>> > I have a table with a title and headings, 3 columns each. No problem. I
>> > want to insert subcategories within the table:
>> > What I would like to do is to have the subcategory row entry SPAN the 3
>> > columns.
>> >
>> > <row>
>> > <entry>col1</entry>
>> > <entry>col2</entry>
>> > <entry>col3</entry>
>> > </row>
>> > <row>
>> > <entry>New categorty</entry>
>> > </row>
>> > <row>
>> > <entry>col1</entry>
>> > <entry>col2</entry>
>> > <entry>col3</entry>
>> > </row>
>>
>> In HTML, the attribute you would want is COLSPAN, as in
>> <TD COLSPAN=3> bla </TD>
>>
>> Dunno if that helps.

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