Date: Jan. 24, 2001
Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14137&release_id=21474
Source Author or Organization: Michael Smith

table.el is a WYSIWYG table editor that extends Emacs and provides text based table creation and editing features for Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) Editing Macros (Emacs) and XEmacs (Emacs for X Window). The tool generates XML source compliant with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Exchange subset of the Continuous Acquisition & Life-Cycle Support (CALS) table model (used in DocBook and some other Document Type Definitions) and can also generate HTML 3.2 compliant tables.

table.el can embed tables in XML/SGML/HTML or any other text document, such as code comments and email. Like Emacs, it can also be used in a non Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment, for example over a Telnet/tty connection.

The program generates CALS and HTML source, but does not display either CALS or HTML tables. Support for generating LaTeX tables is planned.