table

The table element markup identifies a table.
Elements inside a table may at times inherit default values from the attributes on the containing table. Furthermore, a table element may have some stylesheet associated with it that may provide default values for some or all of its attributes.
If a table element has no explicit specification for an attribute but does have an associated style sheet that gives a specification for this attribute, then the stylesheet value shall be used as the value that is inherited from this element. 

Element information

Content

• tgroup [1..*]    Each tgroup effectively identifies a new portion of a table. The colspecs and the colnames in each tgroup are independent of any other tgroup. The colspecs in a tgroup apply to its tbody. The colspecs in a tgroup shall be in left-to-right column order. Explicit colnums in the different colspecs of a tgroup shall be unique, in ascending order left-to-right, in the range 1 to the number of colspecs, which is not to exceed the value of the cols attribute of tgroup.

Attributes

Sample instance

<table frame="all">
   <title>Sample Table</title>
   <tgroup cols="5" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
      <colspec colname="c1"/>
      <colspec colname="c2"/>
      <colspec colname="c3"/>
      <colspec colnum="5" colname="c5"/>
      <thead>
         <row>
            <entry namest="c1" nameend="c2" align="center">Horizontal Span</entry>
            <entry>a3</entry>
            <entry>a4</entry>
            <entry>a5</entry>
         </row>
      </thead>
      <tfoot>
         <row>
            <entry>f1</entry>
            <entry>f2</entry>
            <entry>f3</entry>
            <entry>f4</entry>
            <entry>f5</entry>
         </row>
      </tfoot>
      <tbody>
         <row>
            <entry>b1</entry>
            <entry>b2</entry>
            <entry>b3</entry>
            <entry>b4</entry>
            <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">
               <para>
                        Vertical Span</para>
            </entry>
         </row>
         <row>
            <entry>c1</entry>
            <entry namest="c2" nameend="c3" align="center" morerows="1" valign="bottom">Span Both</entry>
            <entry>c4</entry>
         </row>
         <row>
            <entry>d1</entry>
            <entry>d4</entry>
            <entry>d5</entry>
         </row>
      </tbody>
   </tgroup>
</table>