[Zope] Alternate HTML Table implementation in STX

[Andreas Jung]

How do you handle colspan and rowspan?

-aj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rockwell" <RobertR@intouchcorp.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:44
Subject: [Zope] Alternate HTML Table implementation in STX


> Hello,
>
> This question is motivated by attempts to maintain some tabular lists in
> Zwiki (v0.9.6 on Zope 2.5).
>
> I've noticed that HTML tables can be described in wiki's using an STX
> convention involving dashes (-) and vertical bars (|).  Although this
> doesn't require HTML knowledge, it certainly requires skill on the
author's
> part to get it right.  For simple tablular lists of data, the extra
> flexibility of this convention is more of an obstacle.
>
> Does anyone know of simpler convention for describing columns of data?
I'm
> thinking more along the lines of something like (now entering dream mode)
>
> <DTML-TABLE>
> Name; email; phone
> Joe Smith; js@nowhere.comm; 555-1111
> Sarah Conner; sc@adomain.nett; 555-5555
> </DTML-TABLE>
>
> which would render something like
>
> |-------------------------------------------|
> | Name         | email           | phone    |
> |-------------------------------------------|
> | Joe Smith    | js@nowhere.comm | 555-1111 |
> |-------------------------------------------|
> | Sarah Conner | sc@adomain.nett | 555-5555 |
> |-------------------------------------------|
>
> People have an easier time grasping the concept of editing comma delimited
> lists than using the ascii drawing skills.
>
> Due to constraints on my time, I would rather not do this with tables and
> sql.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --ira (via Bob's account)
>
>
>
>
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