RE: [oic] Advisory 00007 - Table Rows / Table Columns

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:14 -0600, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> The correct statement is that those elements (and groups) cannot be
> used within table:table-header-rows/-columns elements.  It actually
> has nothing to do with whether headers are repeated or not.  

From ODF 1.2 section 9.1.7 (and 9.1.11 for columns):

If a table does not fit on a single page, table rows that are included
in a <table:table-header-rows> element are automatically repeated on
every page.

> 
> WHO HAS HEADERS WHERE?
> 
> There is a serious ambiguity in the schemas for
> table-columns-and-groups and table-rows-and-groups.  This is not what
> 00007 is about, but it would certainly deserve an advisory of its own.
> 
> For example, the table-columns-and-groups pattern is satisfied by a
> non-empty sequence consisting of <table:table-column-group>,
> <table:table-columns>, <table:table-header-columns>, and
> <table:table-columns> elements.  Likewise, a <table:table-row-group>
> element has the table-columns-and-groups pattern for its content.
> Additional constraints are expressed (badly) in the text.  It is
> clear, however, that a <table:table-header-columns> does not have to
> be at the beginning of a table-columns-and-groups pattern and that a
> <table:table-column-group> can have a <table:table-header-columns>
> child of its own (as can further-nested <table:table-column-group>s).
> 
> Great pains were taken to have the table-columns-no-group runs permit
> an optional header element in any single place in a run.  It is
> peculiar, after that, that there can be any number of such runs and
> interspersed groups.

This may be what the schema permits, but the text adds additional
condition, e.g. in ODF 1.2 section 9.1.7 (and 9.1.11 for columns):

A table shall not contain more than one <table:table-header-rows>
element, except that the table contains grouped rows defined by one or
more <table:table-row-group> 9.1.9 elements. In this case, the table and
each distinct group may contain one <table:table-header-rows> element,
if and only if the table rows contained in the <table:table-header-rows>
elements are adjacent.


> 
> The table-rows-and-groups pattern works the same way except for rows
> instead of columns.
> 
> IMPORTANT NOTE: The ODF 1.2 Schema is no different.  For ODF 1.2, it
> is the schema that is authoritative, not the text.  How grand.
> 

Andreas


-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
Concordia University College of Alberta