Re: [docbook] CALS table attribute inheritance questions

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

I just checked into CVS an updated common/table.xsl that fixes the
inheritance of attributes for an entry inside an entrybl.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
To: "Max Starkenburg" <maxwell@owlnet.rice.edu>;
<docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:37 AM
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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