Re: [docbook-apps] setting class values for HTML elements (tables?)

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

I investigated this issue, and I would classify this as a bug.  Both table and 
informaltable will output a class attribute value that matches the @tabstyle attribute 
if there is one on the table or informaltable.  That behavior predates the 
implementation of mode="class.value".  But there is no provision for using the 
mode="class.value" to override it, and this is the bug.  The table templates should 
pass the tabstyle attribute as the default value for the mode to override if desired.

If you could file a bug report on the DocBook SourceForge site, this will get fixed by 
the next release.  In the interim, you could use tabstyle="textbox-table" instead.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nagle" <idiotprogrammer@gmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:31 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] setting class values for HTML elements (tables?)


> Hi, there, I am aware of how to set class values for docbook elements
> for HTML output. I am using the latest non-namespaced docbook
> stylesheets.  However, this trick does not seem to work for the
> INFORMALTABLE element.
>
> The syntax and spelling looks right. Perhaps this trick only works for
> certain elements but not others. If so, is there any kind of rule for
> what kinds of elements this would work for?  maybe this is a bug?
>
> Robert
>
> ********************************************
>
> THIS WORKS:
>
>    <xsl:template match="para[@role = 'first-para']" mode="class.value">
>        <xsl:value-of select="'first-para'"/>
>    </xsl:template>
>
>
> THIS DOES NOT WORK:
>
>    <xsl:template match="informaltable[@role = 'textbox-table']"
> mode="class.value">
>        <xsl:value-of select="'textbox-table'"/>
>    </xsl:template>
>
> Input:
>   <informaltable xml:id="test-text-table" role="textbox-table">
>               <tgroup cols="1">
>            <!--      <colspec />
>                <colspec />-->
>            <tbody role="textbox-table">
>                <row>
>                    <entry>Can you see this table?   </entry>
>                </row>
>            </tbody>
>        </tgroup>
>       </informaltable>
>
> The result looks like this:
>
>   <div class="informaltable"><a id="test-text-table"/>
>        <table border="1"><colgroup><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>Can
> you see this table?  </td></tr></tbody></table>
>
> This is bad because I expect either the  <div class="informaltable">
> or       <table border="1"> to have a class of textbox-table.
>
> (The id refers to the xml:id value of test-text-table; not relevant here).
>
>
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> Robert Nagle
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