User:Go for it!/table tests

Your original but without the transcluded text
This should retain all the formatting but will be easier to manage during this testing.

Rewrite from scratch as a single table
There seems to be a lot of junk code in your original version. Rather than clean it out line by line, I'm just going to start over and see how closely I can replicate your result. Rossami (talk)

Doubled (tripled?) border
In your request, you specifically said you needed to retain the double border but didn't say for what purpose. If it's just for looks, the easiest way is to change the border style.

And since this may be as good as I can make it, I'm also going to re-transclude the text so you can compare it to the original. Shoot me a note if you have any more questions. I'm not all that good at tables but I'm learning. Rossami (talk) 21:46, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

By the way, you might want to check out this reference for other border options.

Catherine's version
I'm sorry Rossami, I was working on the table at the same time you were, without realizing it. It looks like we came to the same conclusions though. &mdash; Catherine\talk 22:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Here's what I did with it:

An alternate technique based on aggressive transclusion
This technique can be used to build a table in wiki. It uses the transclusion feature that let's you pull in content from other pages. If the other page is also a table, it should nest the tables. Be very cautious with border and format commands, though. It's not always clear to me which format takes precedence. Rossami (talk) 15:25, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay. I'm going to stop this experiment.  It works but the time it would take to reset the borders will be prohibitive.  You'd have to set borders by hand so that each nested table only incorporated internal borders and no external borders.  Otherwise, you get this nasty mess of nested lines the deeper you go.  (That advice might change if there's an easy code to suppress the external borders like MS Office products do but I don't know how to do it in a wiki-table grammar.)  Rossami (talk)