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Subject: Re: [office-comment] covered-table-cell
On 12/17/2014 04:44 AM, Zorg wrote:
Hi, I'm writing a Qt library for .ods files, available at: https://github.com/f35f22fan/QOds Can you please explain why one needs a special type of cell (covered-table-cell) to designate the cells that are next to the spanned ones? I mean programmatically it's easy/possible to figure it out which cells are covered, hence apparently the office suit shouldn't need a hint for this.
It is indeed possible to calculate the positions of cells by evaluating all the table:number-columns-spanned and table:number-rows-spanned attributes. Infering the empty positions is quite cheap to do for the table:number-columns-spanned attribute, but requires iterating through previous rows for the table:number-rows-spanned attribute.
You can reduce the number of required table:covered-table-cell elements by using them like this:
<t:table-row> <t:table-cell t:number-rows-spanned="3" t:number-columns-spanned="2"/> <t:covered-table-cell t:number-columns-repeated="2"/> </t:table-row> <t:table-row> <t:table-cell t:number-rows-spanned="3"/> <t:covered-table-cell t:number-columns-repeated="2"/> </t:table-row> The explanation in version 1.0 of the specification adds: "The <table:covered-table-cell> is especially used by spreadsheet applications, where it is a common use case that a covered cell contains content." Here is a real world example for row 1 and 2 in a spreadsheet: <table:table-row> <table:table-cell table:formula="of:=[.B1]" table:number-columns-spanned="3" table:number-rows-spanned="2"/> <table:covered-table-cell office:value-type="string"> <text:p>hello</text:p> </table:covered-table-cell> <table:covered-table-cell/> </table:table-row> <table:table-row> <table:covered-table-cell table:number-columns-repeated="3"/> </table:table-row>As you can see, the word 'hello' from hidden cell b1 is also shown in cell A1.
Cheers, Jos
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