On 9/13/05, Joris Gillis <roac(_at_)pandora(_dot_)be> wrote:
Tempore 15:19:03, die 09/13/2005 AD, hinc in
xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com scripsit Michael Kay
<mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>:
I think it's true to say that practices like this were commonplace
five
years ago when many of these examples were written - they are still
commonplace today, but no longer regarded as good practice.
I can't imagine why any person with commons sense would write such code,
even if it was commonplace.
I've had the luck (at least I consider it too be luck) not to learn
html. I started with XHTML, CSS & XML some years ago before even knowing
that 'html' (in the sence of not-balanced markup tags) existed. And I
always stayed miles away of anything that looked like WHYSIWYG-editors.
You have the benefit of hindsight Joris, it was only a few short years
ago that everything was done with tables. "Common sense" is after all
by definition what the majority of people think at the time - it was
common sense back then to use tables, it's common sense now to avoid
them...
As the example given:
<xsl:variable name="table-heading">
<tr>
<td><b>Date</b></td>
<td><b>Home Team</b></td>
<td><b>Away Team</b></td>
<td><b>Result</b></td>
</tr>
</xsl:variable>
is clearly the heading of a table of results, it's perfectly valid to use
table markup _in_this_case_: that's what table-related tags (standardised
in HTML 3.2) are for. I assumed that the original objection was to using
<td> tags (stands for "table data") when it should obviously be <th> -
"table header".
In addition, using <b> tags for emboldening the text would be irrelevant
if the correct <th> tag was used, as old browser default styles usually
emboldened the contents of <th> tags anyway.
Now, back to XSLT... :-)
Nick.
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http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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