[Table-request] CALS table support?

[Michael S. <sm...@xm...>]

Tak, 

First, thanks for coming up with table.el -- great piece of work.

A couple of questions:

1. Any plans to add support for generating CALS tables?

The CALS model, if you're not familiar with it, goes like this:

    <table>
      <title></title>
      <tgroup cols="2">
	<tbody>
	  <row>
	    <entry></entry>
	    <entry></entry>
	  </row>
	</tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table> 
   
That's just about the simplest example possible. For a more complex
example, look at this from the DocBook guide:

  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/table.html#AEN114751
   
A sample rendering follows the example.


2. How much work would it be to add support for CALS tables? I am very
   glad to help any way I can should you decide to add CALS.

I work much with XML (mostly in DocBook, which uses the CALS table
model) using Emacs/psgml mode. One of the very few things psgml
-can't- do that some other editor can is graphical table editing.

Using psgml in conjuction with table.el+CALS would really help DocBook
users create tables much more quickly and easily.

Any thoughts on adding CALS to table.el? -- Yes, no, maybe?

Regards,

  --Mike Smith

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