[MPlayer-DOCS] Need some tips on how to make fancy tables with XML

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> I'm working on merging Rich's encoding guide into the XML doc.
> I have started with writing sort of draft in HTML as I master HTML
> better.
> Attached are the HTML draft of the section on which I'm working, and the
> patch against the XML doc.
> The problem I have is that I don't know how to make a cell span over
> several other cells.
> Do you have any idea?

Why don't you simply keep the ASCII art?  I don't think the HTML table
you created improves upon it...

> The other problem I have is that I'd like to be able to say: "this cell
> has its background of this color" (for example, cells with a "C" on it
> would have a red background, whereas a cell with a "L" would have a grey
> background.
> All that makes sense to me in the context : we're talking about
> colorspaces, but AFAIK, the whole idea of XML is to separate display
> from content, so I don't know how I'm supposed to handle that.
> 
> Could you give me a hint in how to handle this?

You have to dive straight into the stylesheets.

This looks good from a quick glance otherwise, commit it soon.

Diego