The following is an example of creating a table.
<table id="tb-mockup-before-begin"> This tells XML that you will be creating a table and the ID name is"tb-mockup-before-begin."<title>Available Features of GNOME and KDE</title> <tgroup cols="3"> This tells XML that you are creating a table with three columns. <colspec colnum="1" colname="Features" colwidth="3"/>colspecsays that you are giving information about the column to XMLcolnum="1"says that you are giving specifications for the first column.colname="Features"says that the title for this column will be "Features."colwidth="3"specifies the width of the column. This can be more tricky: such as two columns with widths of 1 and 2,the 1 is one-half the width of the 2, in respect to the page size. But, what if you need the 1 to be a little more than half of the 2, using a larger number ratio, such as 10 to 20 would accomplish this. You could then change the 10 to an 11 or a 12 to make it a little more than half of the second column of 20. In no value is given, a value of 1 is assumed. <colspec colnum="2" colname="GNOME" colwidth="2"/> <colspec colnum="3" colname="KDE" colwidth="2"/> <thead> Contains one or more table row elements. <row> Contains one or more table cell (entry) elements. <entry>Features</entry> Table cell element, one of several in a row element, defining columns within the row. <entry>GNOME</entry> <entry>KDE</entry> </row> </thead> <tbody> Contains one or more row elements, for the main text of the table. <row> <entry>highly configurable</entry> <entry>yes</entry> <entry>yes</entry> </row> <row> <entry>multiple window managers </entry> <entry>yes</entry> <entry>yes</entry> </row> <row> <entry>Internet applications</entry> <entry>yes </entry> <entry>yes </entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table>
| Features | GNOME | KDE |
|---|---|---|
| highly configurable | yes | yes |
| multiple window managers | yes | yes |
| Internet applications | yes | yes |
Table 6.2. Available Features of GNOME and KDE
Creating a list within a table can be a difficult task. It requires strict formatting and a set of commands that are not available for command completion in Emacs.
The tags you will need to use are
<simplelist> and
<member>.
The following example will show you the proper formatting for creating a list within a table.
<table id="tb-hardware-powerswitch">
<title>Power Switch Hardware Table</title>
<tgroup cols="4">
<colspec colnum="1" colname="Hardware" colwidth="2"/>
<colspec colnum="2" colname="Quantity" colwidth="2"/>
<colspec colnum="3" colname="Description" colwidth="6"/>
<colspec colnum="4" colname="Required" colwidth="2"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Hardware</entry>
<entry>Quantity</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
<entry>Required</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>Serial power switches</entry>
<entry>Two</entry>
<entry><simplelist> <member>Power switches enable each cluster system
to power-cycle the other cluster system. Note that clusters are
configured with either serial or network attached power switches and
not both.</member>
<member>The following serial attached power switch has been
fully tested:</member>
<member>RPS-10 (model M/HD in the US, and model M/EC in
Europe) </member>
<member>Latent support is provided for the following serial
attached power switch. This switch has not yet been fully
tested:</member>
<member>APC Serial On/Off Switch (partAP9211), <ulink
url="http://www.apc.com/">http://www.apc.com/</ulink></member>
</simplelist></entry>
<entry>Strongly recommended for data integrity under all failure
conditions</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
Notice how the <simplelist> tag must be
beside the <entry> tag? If you do not format
this properly, it will not parse cleanly.
The above example will look like the following:
| Hardware | Quantity | Description | Required | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serial power switches | Two |
| Strongly recommended for data integrity under all failure conditions |
Table 6.3. Power Switch Hardware Table