entry

Identifies an entry in a row.
Default values for colsep, rowsep, valign, align, char, and charoff may come from like-named attributes from the nearest element identified as influencing this entry. The values may come from table, tgroup, colspec (defining namest or colname), tbody, or row. Note that colspec is not strictly in the element lineage.
The char and charoff attributes are allowed on colspec as well as on entry. While an implementation should accept these attributes on either of these elements upon input, it may produce logically equivalent output that nevertheless differs with respect to these attributes and still be considered in compliance with the semantics of this Memorandum. A table with one or more entrys with values of either char or charoff that differ from the value for the same attribute on any other entry in that logical column or from a colspec that logically contains the entry(s) does not conform to the model defined in this Memorandum. It is left up to the implementation receiving such a table to determine how it should be handled. It is recommended that an authoring or editing implementation or any implementation that verifies the compliance of the table markup to this Memorandum offer the option of producing a warning message when it encounters such markup.
An entry gets its defaults from its starting column. A row has no explicit entry in any column into which a vertical straddle occurs because of a morerows attribute on an entry from a prior row. A spanning entry has no explicit repeated entrys in the columns to the right of the column identified by namest. An entry without specific starting column (a namest attribute) cannot span, and falls in the next non-straddled and non-spanned column.