The colspan and rowspan attributes record tabular display rendering information.
The model of this element is based on the td element of HTML.
                                 <elementSpec ident="td" module="MEI.figtable">
                                    
                                    <gloss xml:lang="en">table data</gloss>
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">Designates a table cell that contains data as opposed to a cell that
                                       contains column or row heading information.</desc>
                                    
                                    <classes>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.common"/>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.facsimile"/>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.lang"/>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.xy"/>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.tabular"/>
                                       </classes>
                                    
                                    <content>
                                       
                                       <rng:zeroOrMore>
                                          
                                          <rng:choice>
                                             
                                             <rng:text/>
                                             
                                             <rng:ref name="model.textComponentLike"/>
                                             
                                             <rng:ref name="model.textPhraseLike"/>
                                             
                                             <rng:ref name="model.editLike"/>
                                             
                                             <rng:ref name="model.transcriptionLike"/>
                                             </rng:choice>
                                          </rng:zeroOrMore>
                                       </content>
                                    
                                    <remarks xml:lang="en">
                                       
                                       <p>The <att>colspan</att> and <att>rowspan</att> attributes record tabular display rendering
                                          information.</p>
                                       
                                       <p>The model of this element is based on the <ref target="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-td-element">td</ref> element of 
                                          <abbr>HTML</abbr>.</p>
                                       </remarks>
                                    </elementSpec>