David Sewell wrote:

>
>Rephrase the above to "It tests tables that are *supposed to* have
>these characteristics".
>
>Point being that the following is a perfectly valid TEI table:
>
>         <table cols="3" rows="1">
>            <row><cell>one</cell><cell>two</cell><cell>three</cell></row>
>            <row><cell>one</cell></row>
>         </table>
>
>even though its actual form does not fit its description. So the
>stylesheet simply enforces the description by reporting discrepancies.
>
>
yes, but once the table has passed the test, the @cols can reliably
be derived automatically at runtime....

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