[rfc-i] draft-iab-xml2rfc-03, "2.54 <table>"

[paul.hoffman at vpnc.org (Paul Hoffman)]

On 16 Jun 2016, at 1:22, Julian Reschke wrote:

> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-iab-xml2rfc-03.html#rfc.section.2.54>:
>
>> 1. One optional <name> element (Section 2.32)
>> 2. Optional <iref> elements (Section 2.27)
>> 3. One optional <thead> element (Section 2.59)
>> 4. One or more <tbody> elements (Section 2.55)
>> 5. One optional <tfoot> element (Section 2.57)
>
> a) I'm not totally convinced anybody will use <tfoot>.

Neither am I, but some people seem to like to have bits of explanation 
in tables, and some like to put that after the table.

> b) When running conversion tests, I discovered test cases that verify 
> that texttables that only contain column titles work; converting them 
> to v3 format yields a <table> element with <thead> but no <tbody> 
> child element. This would be valid HTML5; why do we disallow it?

A table with no body seems semantically weird to me.

--Paul Hoffman