Tables are quite complicated to write in DocBook XML (as in HTML, there are lots of fiddly tags), so here's an example you can cannibalise. In the spirit of the LaTeX short introduction I don't repeat all the markup verbatim; you have to look at the source for that.
Here's | a sample | table |
With differently | aligned | cells |
There's not much else to it. Entries can span
both extra rows and extra columns; just be careful when
using block markup (such as |