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        RFC 1942:

        Title:      HTML Tables
        Author:     D. Raggett
        Date:       May 1996
        Mailbox:    dsr@w3.org
        Pages:      30
        Characters: 68,705
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1942.txt


The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used
to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to
another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that
are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of
applications. This specification extends HTML to support a wide
variety of tables. The model is designed to work well with associated
style sheets, but does not require them. It also supports rendering to
braille, or speech, and exchange of tabular data with databases and
spreadsheets. The HTML table model embodies certain aspects of the
CALS table model, e.g. the ability to group table rows into thead,
tbody and tfoot sections, plus the ability to specify cell alignment
compactly for sets of cells according to the context.  This RFC is the
product of the Hypertext Markup Language Working Group of the IETF.

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