The current content model of <cell>
is macro.paraContent; I suggest that it be changed to macro.specialPara, to make it the same as <item>
, on the grounds that lists and tables are very similar beasts. The effect of the current situation is that <cell>
can contain lists or element Specs, but not <p>
.
I cite EEBO http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:52211822
as evidence for the existence of paragaphs in cells.
Seconded. If list items can contain paragraphs (which is more counter-intuitive to my mind), the certainly cells should be able to. I can't connect to that EEBO example, but I can picture a table with cells containing multiple paragraphs with no difficulty.
I see no objection to this either.
the only difference between paraContent and specialPara is the following elements
ab
eTree
forest
graph
l
listForest
p
schemaSpec
sp
spGrp
tree
u
so the distinction is quite subtle. I am making the change now. if it doesnt break, and there is no shouting, I will close this ticket.