G.2. Basic XHTML Tables

Tables are used to organize data in rows and columns. Our first example (Fig. G.1) creates a table with six rows and two columns to display price information for fruit.

Figure G.1. XHTML table.
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					<?xml
					version = "1.0"?>
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					<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
					"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
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					"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
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					<!-- Fig. G.1: table1.html -->
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					<!-- Creating a basic table -->
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					8  <html xmlns =
					"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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					<head>
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					<title>A simple XHTML table</title>
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					</head>
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					<body>
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					<!-- the <table> tag opens a table -->
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					<table border =
						"1"
						width =
						"40%"                  
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						summary =
						"This table provides information about
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						the price of fruit"
						>                        
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					<!-- the <caption> tag summarizes the table's ...

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