RE: [docbook-apps] Odd column resizing issue

["Bill Burns" <bburns@verbumcomm.com>]

> I'm sorry, but it is a little hard to understand what you are doing. May I ask why you need to retrofit webhelpindexer to work with 
>a very old version of DocBook-XSL? 

>I don't know how to reproduce the table columns problem. You mention the adjustColumnWidth extension function from 
>docbook.py in your follow-up post, so I presume that you use Python to do the transformation. Is this right?

The client I'm working for developed their own flavor of Web Help based on an older DocBook XSL version and had a different mechanism for search. Trying to bring it up to date would've been nontrivial, so I ported the webhelpindexer into their transform environment instead. I'm getting Java exceptions because the output isn't fully XHTML compliant. I'm trying to eliminate the Java exceptions during indexing by adding the XHTML namespace to the stylesheets and generating XHTML compliant content. When I do this to table.xsl, the adjustColumnWidth extension function fails and passes through the values rather than converting them to percentages.

As it stands, I can leave table.xsl alone and produce plain HTML. Everything indexes okay. I just get those ugly Java exceptions. I'd rather have a clean transform.

Bill Burns
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