Re: [docbook-apps] Table Header Column Formatting

[Marcel Tromp <mtromp.docbook@gmail.com>]

Correct, I am looking at print output.

I was hoping to be able to do column specific formatting based on defining a role in the colspec. This does not seem possible, correct?

As an alternative, I have been trying to put a role on 'entry', but have not been successful. How do I change table.cell.properties based on an attribute of an ancestor?

Regards,

Marcel

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

Hi,

I presume you are asking about printed output, not HTML output.

There is a named template that handles the format properties on each table cell, and another to apply format properties to the fo:block inside each cell.  These are described in these two sections of my book:

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#table.cell.properties

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#table.cell.block.properties

 

You could customize these using additional xpath selectors.  The existing template uses "ancestor::thead" to test for table header cells.  You could use "count(preceding-sibling::entry) = 0" to detect first cells in each row.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Marcel Tromp

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:10 PM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Table Header Column Formatting

Is there an easy way do define a stylesheet that will format the cells in a header column the same way the cells are formatting in a header (thead) row?

Marcel

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