Proposal for refinement of Table Templates

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC members,

while implementing the table templates we have agreed a while ago, 
Christian noticed an issue with the current schema, that he described 
below, together with a proposal how to solve the issue.

Best regards

Michael

> In ODF 1.2 I proposed a change to Section "14.5 Table Templates" and added
> "8.1.1.3 Table Template Name", "8.1.1.8 Use Banding Rows Styles" and
> "8.1.1.9 Use Banding Columns Styles".
> 
> This proposal allowed to add dynamic templates to tables. For example if the user
> wants to have odd rows to have different colors than even rows he can set
> the "table:use-banding-rows-styles" to "true" and assign a table template style
> by using the "table:template-name". The table template style can have different
> styles for even and for odd rows. Now if the user inserts new rows the application
> knows how to reassign the styles for even and odd rows.
> 
> In "14.5 Table Templates" there is a priority defined for each style of a table template.
> There even rows and odd rows have priority before even columns and odd columns.
> Now if a user wants to have banding for both rows and columns, this is not possible.
> Each cell is already either on an even or odd row, so the even/odd column styles will
> never have a priority. To solve this problem, the designer of a table template could
> omit the style for either the odd or even rows.
> 
> But this is not possible because currently the styles for odd and even rows are grouped
> inside an optional element in the relaxng of the <table:template> element.
> 
> To enable users to create table templates that work with both banded rows and columns
> I propose a change to the relaxng of the <table:template> element.
> 
> change
> [...]
> <optional>
>  <ref name="table-even-rows"/>
>  <ref name="table-odd-rows"/>
> </optional>
> <optional>
>  <ref name="table-even-columns"/>
>  <ref name="table-odd-columns"/>
> </optional>
> [...]
> 
> to
> [...]
> <optional>
>  <ref name="table-even-rows"/>
> </optional>
> <optional>
>  <ref name="table-odd-rows"/>
> </optional>
> <optional>
>  <ref name="table-even-columns"/>
> </optional>
> <optional>
>  <ref name="table-odd-columns"/>
> </optional>
> [...]
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christian


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