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The answer appears to be no. I just downloaded the Author/Editor ead.rls file and opened a new document. The tell-tale <drow> element is not available within a <c01> element. The use of the term tabular may be somewhat misleading. The <table> element and its subelements are still available in this rules file to create tabular displays within elements like <bioghist> and <scopecontent>. Rather it means that the <drow> elements and its children are not available to create tabular presentation within a <dsc>. Of course, if you are using XML syntax and the XSL stylesheet language to transform and present your data as HTML, you can create tabular output in your HTML automatically during the transformation process, without having to explicitly hard-code your table-defining features into the finding aid itself. This is a simpler and cleaner approach, one that more faithfully adheres to the SGML/XML principle of separating content markup from presentation markup. A goal towards which we strive even if we cannot achieve it 100%. Michael Michael Fox Head of Processing Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd West St. Paul MN 55102-1906 phone: 651-296-1014 fax: 651-296-9961 [log in to unmask] **NOTE NEW AREA CODE EFFECTIVE JULY 12, 1998** > ---------- > From: Timothy Young[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:33 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list EAD > Subject: Variant rules files for Author/Editor? > > On the EAD HELP PAGES site, in the listing of > helper files (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/helper.html) > we list one set of "rls" files that can be used > with Author/Editor. A question has come up about > whether these rules files are created from a > tabular or non-tabular DTD. > > I know that WordPerfect needs to have a specific > logic file for either option. However, after looking at the > body of the A/E rules file, it looks like the control > over tabular-vs-non-tabular is retained in the core DTD. > Thus - there is no need for two versions of rules files. > > Can anyone verify/comment on this? > > Thanks, > > Timothy Young > Ex Officio - EAD RoundTable, Society of American Archivists > Archivist > Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale University > New Haven, CT 06520 > (203) 432-8131 >