Table layout in fo output

[Danny Kruitbosch <d.kruitbosch@rdc.nl>]

Hi,

My documents contain al lot of tables and I'd like have some more 
control over the layout. Setting borders and backgound color etc for 
each cell becomes a bit tedious...So what I was thinking was the following:

It would be nice if I could set the layout for the entire table by 
setting the 'role' attribute for the <table> element and create a 
customization layer to create the style for the table. I've seen the 
example in the Docbook XSL guide about row background colors 
(http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/BGtableColor.html#d0e27273). But 
this only works for html ouput and not for FO output.

The effect of this should be somewhat like applying a table style in MS 
Word.

Does this work? and if so can someone point me in the right direction? 
(I know how to use docbook, but I'm not a XSL guru)

Cheers,

Danny