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Subject: Re: [docbook] CALS table attribute inheritance questions
----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Starkenburg" <maxwell@owlnet.rice.edu> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:15 AM Subject: [docbook] CALS table attribute inheritance questions > I sent this out two weeks ago, but never received any replies, so I'm > trying again. Sorry to be a pest, but I need an answer to these questions > before I can continue with my work. If there's something I wrote that > didn't make sense, let me know and I will try to clarify. Thanks, > > Max > http://cnx.rice.edu > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Hello, I have some questions about inheritance issues for attributes in > CALS tables that aren't very clear to me from the spec I've been using > (http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/a502.htm) or other sources I have seen on > the 'net. Let's say I have the following table: > > <table> > <tgroup align="center" cols="3"> > <colspec colname="c1" colsep="0" /> > <colspec colname="c2" align="right" /> > <colspec colname="c3" align="right" /> > <tbody> > <row rowsep="0"> > <entrytbl cols="2" colname="c1"> > <tbody> > <row> > <entry> A.1 </entry> > <entry> A.2 </entry> > </row> > <row> > <entry> A.3 </entry> > <entry> A.4 </entry> > </row> > </tbody> > </entrytbl> > <entry colname="c2"> B </entry> > <entry> C </entry> > </row> > </tbody> > </tgroup> > </table> > > My first question is whether the "A.x" entries should inherit the > rowsep="0" (from their common <row> ancestor), the colsep="0" (from the > <colspec> referenced in the <entrytbl>), and the align="center" (from > their <tgroup> ancestor)? In other words, do such attributes "reset" at > the <entrytbl> level, or do they continue being inherited all the way up? > If they "reset", would the "A.x" entries inherit any attributes defined in > <table>? The answer is no, according to the CALS table spec at http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/a502.htm "Within an <entrytbl>, inheritance for an <entry> is from <entrytbl> (or its <thead> if the <entry> is also in it) instead of <tgroup>, and cannot be from <thead> or <tfoot> of that <tgroup>." However, I'm not sure the XSL stylesheet is behaving correctly in an entrytbl. It uses an ancestor::tgroup in computing the inherited attribute value, and an entrytbl does not have a tgroup. I'm going to go through that template again with your example. The entrytbl does seem to inherit the colsep="0" from the outer tgroup, and that is not correct. > My second question is whether the content in the "C" <entry> aligns to the > right, as defined by the third <colspec>, even though its <entry> doesn't > specifically reference the third <colspec> via a colname attribute (as was > done in the "B" <entry> with the second <colspec>)? Yes, it should align right. The 3rd colspec applies to entry elements in that column even if it is not referred to by name. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net
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