Re: OT: HTML and tables (was Re: First character

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.

You got me wrong;-)
Of course it's normal to use 'table' elements here; it would be insane not to use table markup in this case.

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.

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