[tei-council] @rows="0", @cols="0"?

[Gabriel Bodard]

I feel as though the answer to this ought to be yes (even if only in a 
hypothetical, never-really-going-to-happen kind of way) but I'm not sure 
I can think of even that. Trying to twist my mind...

Would you ever get a case when a table (in the proper sense of a series 
of rows, each cell in which lines up semantically with a column heading 
above) has both spanning cells and absent cells (that would need to be 
so marked)?

So if the table has columns A, B, C, and rows 1, 2, 3, with a structure 
something like:

<table cols="4">
   <row>
     <cell role="label">A</cell>
     <cell role="label">B</cell>
     <cell role="label">C</cell>
   </row>
   <row>
     <cell role="label">1</cell>
     <cell>1A</cell>
     <cell>1B</cell>
     <cell>1C</cell>
   </row>
   <row>
     <cell role="label">2</cell>
     <cell cols="2">2A</cell>
     <cell>3C</cell>
   </row>
   <row>
     <cell role="label">3</cell>
     <cell cols="2">3A</cell>
     <cell>3B</cell>
   </row>
</table>

How can you tell from the markup (given the content is arbitrary) that 
row 3 does not have the same structure as row 2? Would a <cell 
cols="0"/> in row 2 make it clearer that there is no value for column 
"B" in that row?

That's the best I can do. I'm not sure even I'm convinced.

G

On 01/02/2013 18:33, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm working on this ticket:
>
> http://purl.org/TEI/FR/3511398
>
> where the objective is to express any constraint on an attribute value
> which is currently only expressed in a valDesc as Schematron so it can
> be enforced. So far the only candidates I've found for this are @rows
> and @cols in att.tableDecoration. These are data.count, which permits
> zero, but the valDescs would seem to imply that zero is wrong.
>
> Can anyone think of a scenario in which it would be reasonable to have:
>
> <row cols="0">
>
> or
>
> <cell rows="0">?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>

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