Help on using the <spanspec> tag

Example

This CNXML:


<table id="myers_briggs" summary="Chart of 
    Myers-Briggs types, with each column representing 
    opposite ends of the four dichotomies.">
  <tgroup cols="2" align="center">
    <colspec colname="col1" colnum="1" />
    <colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" />
    <spanspec namest="col1" nameend="col2"
              spanname="dich" />
    <thead>
      <row>
        <entry spanname="dich">
          Dichotomies
        </entry>
      </row>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <row>
        <entry>Extroverted</entry>
        <entry>Introverted</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
        <entry>Sensing</entry>
        <entry>iNtuition</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
        <entry>Thinking</entry>
        <entry>Feeling</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
        <entry>Judging</entry>
        <entry>Perceiving</entry>
      </row>
    </tbody>
  </tgroup>
</table>

Results in this display:

Table 1
Dichotomies
Extroverted	Introverted
Sensing	iNtuition
Thinking	Feeling
Judging	Perceiving

Attributes(what's this?)

namest (required): Name of the furthest left column in the span. Must correspond to the value of a "colname" attribute in a colspec.
nameend (required): Name of the furthest right column in the span. Must correspond to the value of a "colname" attribute in a colspec.
spanname (required): Name for the horizontal span (for reference by entry and entrytbl).
colsep (optional): Sets whether the internal column rulings are displayed or not (ignored for the rightmost column of a table, where the "frame" value applies, and for the rightmost column of an entrytbl, where the entrytbl's "colsep" value applies).
Possible values:
- 0 - Do not display column rulings.
- any other integer - Display column rulings.
Default is implied from the colspec of the column specified by the "namest" attribute.
rowsep (optional): Sets whether the internal row rulings are displayed or not (ignored for the last row of the table, where the "frame" value applies, and for the last row of an entrytbl, where the entrytbl's "rowsep" value applies).
Possible values:
- 0 - Do not display row rulings.
- any other integer - Display row rulings.
Default is implied from the colspec of the column specified by the "namest" attribute.
align (optional): Sets how the text will be aligned.
Possible values:
- left - Left aligned.
- right - Right aligned.
- center - Center aligned (default).
- justify - Right and left aligned.
- char - Aligns to the leftmost occurrence of the value of the char attribute.
char (optional): The character used in the align attribute. Default is implied from the colspec of the column specified by the "namest" attribute.
charoff (optional): The pertcentage of the column width to the left of the char used in the align attribute. Default is implied from the colspec of the column specified by the "namest" attribute.
id (optional): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Using the <spanspec> tag

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