RE: [docbook] colspec attribute getting ignored??

[Jeff Beal <jeff.beal@ansys.com>]

I somehow missed that it wasn't working when compiled, which is a different
problem.  Which tools are you using to create the online help?  XSL or
DSSSL? Which version of the stylesheets?  Which processor?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Zanker [mailto:fzanker@riks.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:07 AM
> To: 'Jeff Beal'; 'docbook@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: RE: [docbook] colspec attribute getting ignored??
> 
> 
> But should this not mean that if the tags are there, and they 
> are correct
> (hopefully!!), that when I compile the file, they should 
> change the column
> width of that table disregarding the fact that the XML editor 
> does not like
> them?
> 
> Ta very much for your answer, as it confirmed my suspicion of 
> the editor
> being somewhat limited.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Beal [mailto:jeff.beal@ansys.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:50 PM
> To: 'Felix Zanker'; 'docbook@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: RE: [docbook] colspec attribute getting ignored??
> 
> This is a limitation of XMLMind XML editor and, indeed, 
> nearly every XML
> editor out there.  CALS table support in editors is a bit 
> sketchy, and IIRC,
> I've only seen it in Arbortext Epic, XMetal, and epcEdit, all 
> commercial and
> relatively expensive.
> 
> 
>