Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables and XSL stylesheets

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM>]

> From: Dave Makower <davemak@iclick.com>
> 
> I thought I'd learn how to do tables in DocBook XML, and that I'd 
> start by running the example in the O'Reilly book through the XSL 
> stylesheets.  First, I added a couple of slashes to convert the empty 
> tags from SGML to XML, and then I  wrapped it inside of a <book> 
> element and a <chapter> subelement, just to make sure it would behave 
> okay.  The result was surprising: the stylesheets complained that "No 
> template matches entry" and _some_ of the tags were printed verbatim 
> in red.  But some of the entries worked.  It seems like a stylesheet 
> problem, or did I screw up the XML?

This is a bug in the XSL stylesheet file html/table.xsl.
It has templates for thead/row/entry and tbody/row/entry
but not tfoot/row/entry, which is where you are getting
the errors.  When I copy the thead template to add
a tfoot template, your example works without errors.

bobs
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