24.4.8.2 Taming border, cellspacing, and cellpadding settings
You can specify values for border, cellspacing, and cellpadding in any of these sections:
However, if you specify values in more than one section for the same attribute (that is, values that apply to the same set of tables) you might get:
If you specify table border, cellspacing, or cellpadding values in the [Attributes] section, Mif2Go also includes the Border, Spacing, and Padding settings in the [Tables] section, resulting in duplicate assignments, which are not valid HTML. For these attributes, use only the [Tables] section.
If you specify border, cellspacing, or cellpadding values for a table or group of tables in [TableAttributes], even if what you list in [TableAttributes] does not include any corresponding attributes, for that group of tables Mif2Go ignores all of the following:
• the Border, Spacing, and Padding settings (if any) in [Tables]
• any border, cellspacing, or cellpadding values in [Attributes].
This means that if you set any of border, cellspacing, or cellpadding in the [TableAttributes]section, you must set them all; the entry in [TableAttributes] replaces all three. If you set border="0" and you want any cell padding or cell spacing, in the same [TableAttributes] entry you must specify greater-than-zero values for cellspacing and cellpadding. If you omit an attribute, Mif2Go writes no value at all for that attribute, in which case the browser default would apply.
For every table you would get a duplicate assignment for cellspacing:
<table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2">
For FormatA tables you would get only a border value:
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