Removing the Table Borders and Rules

The previous example defined a style template for tables with wider borders. You can also make the borders and rules go away altogether. All you have to do is modify a few other settings in the style element we worked with in the previous example.

We are working again with the Output style element in the default style template, Styles.Default. As a reminder, the original settings of the Output style element are shown on the previous page in Figure 16.3.

Three settings in Output need to be changed if we want to create a table without borders or rules. The first one is the RULES= attribute. The setting for RULES= in Styles.Default is GROUPS. This calls for rules between the table header and the table body, ...

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