Re: [docbook-apps] Table Header Column Formatting

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Marcel,

In DocBook 4.5, the role attribute is not permitted on the colspec element.  However, it is for DocBook 5. So you could add role attributes to colspec and test for them.

 

There is a utility template named 'inherited.table.attribute' that can find an attribute value for an entry or from any of its table ancestors.  It will also check the colspec for the entry's column, since some properties like align can be set there. So you can customize the template name 'table.cell.properties' to fetch the value of the 'role' attribute and add properties based on its value.  This snippet shows how it can be done:

 

<xsl:template name="table.cell.properties">
  <xsl:param name="bgcolor.pi" select="''"/>
  <xsl:param name="rowsep.inherit" select="1"/>
  <xsl:param name="colsep.inherit" select="1"/>
  <xsl:param name="col" select="1"/>
  <xsl:param name="valign.inherit" select="''"/>
  <xsl:param name="align.inherit" select="''"/>
  <xsl:param name="char.inherit" select="''"/>

 

<!-- Add this variable -->

  <xsl:variable name="role.attribute">
    <xsl:call-template name="inherited.table.attribute">
      <xsl:with-param name="entry" select="."/>
      <xsl:with-param name="attribute" select="'role'"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="colnum" select="$col"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:variable>

 

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="ancestor::d:tgroup">
      <xsl:if test="$bgcolor.pi != ''">
        <xsl:attribute name="background-color">
          <xsl:value-of select="$bgcolor.pi"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>

 

<!-- Add this test -->

      <xsl:if test="$role.attribute = 'colspecrole'">
        <xsl:attribute name="background-color">
          <xsl:value-of select="'#AEEEEE'"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>

...

 

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

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

From: Marcel Tromp

To: Bob Stayton

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

Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 11:10 PM

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Table Header Column Formatting

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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