Empty TD element wording

Mark Taylor m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Jun 22 10:38:42 PDT 2006


On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Ed Shaya wrote:

> >I think you can use it for either, according to the value of the 
> >VALUES type element.  Sec 4.6 says:
> >
> >   The scope of the domain described by the VALUES element (and by its
> >   MIN, MAX and OPTION sub-elements) can be qualified by type="actual",
> >   if it is only applicable to the data enclosed in the parent TABLE; the
> >   domain of a valid RA in the example above has the default type="legal"
> >   qualification.
> >
> >Mark
>
> When you want to supply the min and max of the list of numbers actually 
> in a Table/Field, one use's "actual".  This is still not an upper or 
> lower limit.  One would need an optional attribute in the TD, as in
> <TD limit="upper">12.3</TD> to specify  u.l. or l.l.

Ah apologies - in that case I misunderstood what was being intended 
by upper/lower limit in this conversation.

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