Table format problem - Please help
Here is what I am trying to do: I have a set of documents in xml fomrat following the docbook standard. In these documents there are too types of table. The standard table with its element tag TABLE...
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Conversion Table Questions: problems converting tables to structured
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View ArticleFramemaker 10 EDD syntax for automatically set attribute values
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