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[Eliot Kimber]

The DITA 1.2 spec has this statement in the description of @pgwide in the reference entry for <table> "For XHTML, the table surrounds the table data. Either value sets the table width to 100%." I'm currently implementing improved HTML table generation for the OT and it seems inappropriate (and unnecessary) to mandate that HTML tables always have a width of 100%. I'm sure this language simply reflects the original IBM implementation of HTML generation, but as it currently exists this is a normative statement that appears to require presenting HTML tables at 100% width. I would recommend either removing this statement entirely or making it a non-normative presentation suggestion. In any case, I'm sure that many HTML renderings of DITA tables do not in fact make the tables 100% wide, so this is an unenforced or unenforceable rule. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com