Re: [xml2rfc-dev] RFC 7991 issue #40: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, New Section 2.54.2

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Mon, 01 October 2018 12:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc-dev] RFC 7991 issue #40: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, New Section 2.54.2
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On 2018-10-01 14:11, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 10/1/2018 1:36 PM, henrik@levkowetz.com wrote:
>> This captures an issue noted during implementation, also described in
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levkowetz-xml2rfc-v3-implementation#section-3.1.5
>> 
>> ---
>> New Section 2.54.2
>> 
>>     The version 3 schema deprecates the previously available 'align'
>>     attribute for the tables, and the V2 to V3 converter will remove this
>>     attributes if used.  This makes a previous feature that was appreciated
>>     by some authors unavailable.  In the text formatter, the effect is
>>     simply to make all tables left-aligned, which may not be the most
>>     readable and polished output, but for the HTML formatter it also
>>     potentially removes the option of letting text flow around smaller
>>     tables in a controlled way.
>> 
>>     Recommendation:  Make the 'align' attribute for tables available again.
>> 
>>     Implementation:  Implemented but inactive in the current version of
>>                      xml2rfc.  The current text formatter code already has
>>                      support for the 'align' attribute for these elements;
>>                      but since the schema does not permit the attribute for
>>                      <table>, the code is never invoked.
>> ---
>> ...
> 
> +1, but duplicates #9.

Ack.

	Henrik