Some ideas are best shown when formatted as tables.
A primitive way to create tables was already presented in Table 4-1 with the use of <simplelist>. However, DocBook has more sophisticated methods to deal with this information.
Example 4-7. Inserting tables
<table frame="all">
<title>Sample Table</title>
<tgroup cols="5">
<colspec colname="column1">
<colspec colname="column2">
<colspec colname="column3">
<colspec colnum="5" colname="column5">
<spanspec namest="column1" nameend="column2" spanname="span-horiz" align="center">
<spanspec namest="column2" nameend="column3" spanname="span-horiz-vert" align="center">
<thead>
<row>
<entry spanname="span-horiz">
<foreignphrase>Span</foreignphrase> horizontal
</entry>
<entry>Heading 2</entry>
<entry>Heading 3</entry>
<entry>Heading 4</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<row>
<entry>Footing 1</entry>
<entry>Footing 2</entry>
<entry>Footing 3</entry>
<entry>Footing 4</entry>
<entry>Footing 5</entry>
</row>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>Data11</entry>
<entry>Data12</entry>
<entry>Data13</entry>
<entry>Data14</entry>
<entry>Data15</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Data21</entry>
<entry>Data22</entry>
<entry>Data23</entry>
<entry>Data24</entry>
<entry morerows="1" valign="middle">
Vertical <foreignphrase>Span</foreignphrase>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Data31</entry>
<entry spanname="span-horiz-vert" morerows="1" valign="bottom">
Double <foreignphrase>Span</foreignphrase>
</entry>
<entry>Data34</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Data41</entry>
<entry>Data44</entry>
<entry>Data45</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
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