Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] colspan/rowspan for tables?

[Dave P. <dav...@gm...>]

On 23 March 2016 at 16:50, Maurice van der Pot <gri...@kf...> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:26:33AM +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
>> > It might be, but I consider rowspan/colspan to be a content decision and
>> > not a styling one.
>>
>> I disagree. Presentation - spanning, is not, IMHO, content.
>
> Ok, then I'm not sure how you would separate the content from spanning.
> Would you always create all cells in the content and merge them in
> presentation?

The content (my view) is within the cells, not how the cell content
is shown.


>
> What would you expect to find in the content for a table that has a row
> of which the first cell should span 2 columns?

As today

|content||

then some 'identity' for that row (table[@id='table1']/tr[3]/td[1] )
then some styling information, e.g. 'span=2'

which enables the presentational aspect to be specified external
to the content?



>
> And similarly, what would you expect in the content for a table that has
> a cell in the first column that (when presented) should span 2 rows?

The same mechanism will work. For example

table[@id='table1']/tr[3]/td[1], rowspan=2

with no change to MD syntax?

HTH


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