Re: [docbook-apps] row/column borders for HTML tables in FO output

[Shane Handford <shandford@castlerockresearch.com>]

Converting all of your tables might be a big undertaking and pointless 
if you're never going to use CALS tables anywhere else.

Are you using a customization layer on top of docboook?

I added my own simple support for table borders defined in CSS yesterday.

This is an uber basic first attempt, needs further testing, and possible 
error handling.

<xsl:template name="parse.style">
     <xsl:param name="style"/>		
     <xsl:for-each select="tokenize(@style, ';')">
         <xsl:if test="normalize-space(tokenize(., ':')[1]) != ''">
             <xsl:attribute name="{normalize-space(tokenize(., 
':')[1])}"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(tokenize(., 
':')[2])"/></xsl:attribute>					
         </xsl:if>
     </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Called from table.cell.properties like this:

<xsl:if test="@style"><xsl:call-template 
name="parse.style"><xsl:with-param name="style"><xsl:value-of 
select="@style"/></xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template></xsl:if>


Also, you can follow this bug to see updates and improvements for table 
attributes:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=373747&aid=2722321&group_id=21935

Bob has already fixed a couple things I reported last week.

~Shane


Bergfrid Skaara wrote:
> I see. Any idea about when we can expect improved support for HTML tables?
> 
> It sounds like I'm better off converting all my tables, or at least
> those with complex layout, to CALS style to "regain" control. I have a
> deadline coming up in 30 days; at that point a committee will be
> deciding based on my PDF layout (among other things) whether or not to
> migrate to DocBook 5 from unstructured FrameMaker.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bergfrid Skaara
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Shane Handford
> <shandford@castlerockresearch.com> wrote:
>> I'm running into similar issues.
>>
>> I believe that Docbook doesn't have complete support in the area of HTML
>> formated tables at the present time.
>>
>> I'm currently working on a customization layer for borders specified with
>> CSS styles.
>>
>> Also, I've had to add support in my customization layer for colspan,
>> rowspan, align, and valign.
>>
>> I raised the colspan issue on this list last week and Bob Stayton had me log
>> it as a bug.  I'll be logging other issues towards the end of this week
>> after further research and experimentation.
>>
>> If anyone has more info in this area I'd love to know.
>>
>> ~Shane Handford
>>
>>
>> Bergfrid Skaara wrote:
>>> How do you set row borders and/or column borders for all HTML style
>>> tables in FO output? Can it  be done in the stylesheets (for example
>>> in the table properties templates), or do you have to edit the
>>> attributes of all your tables? The latter seems inconvenient for a
>>> large documentation set..
>>>
>>> rowsep and colsep attributes on individual table elements are ignored
>>> and also not recognized by the shema. I do however have a rules
>>> attribute with values of all, cols, groups, none, and rows available
>>> on the table element, but these are not recognized by the stylesheet.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am using FOP and the DocBook 5 stylesheets and docbookxi.rng shcema
>>> embedded with oXygen XML Editor v 10.0.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bergfrid Skaara
>>>
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