Re: Table Issue

[Mike Sangrey <mike sojurn lns pa us>]

aliabdin@aucegypt.edu said:
> In kernel-locking.sgml I found the following:
>        <row>
>         <entry>read very_important_count (5)</entry>
>         <entry></entry>
>        </row>
> Note the empty <entry> tags. Currently this causes empty <TD> (or TH)
> tags in gnome-db2html2 with no characters in between - e.g: <TD></TD>

> I tried this with db2html and for those empty tags it inserts '&nbsp;'
> - this gives it a much better look when rendering.

> The problem is because there are no characters in between the <entry>
> tag the charactersSAXFunc never gets called so I can not print out a
> &nbsp;

> What you will need to do instead is: <entry>&nbsp;</entry>  

Couldn't we have a call back which would be called upon an empty tag.  Seems 
to me this would be generally useful in the SAX parser for error handling.  
I've carboned Daniel Veillard on my reply.
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Mike Sangrey
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