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

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 10/1/2018 1:36 PM, [e-mail] 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.

Best regards, Julian