DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: PassiveTeX tables

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:32:17PM -0400, Dennis Grace wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> This is a combination of PassiveTeX observations and DocBook XSL/PassiveTeX
> questions.
> 
> I've been trying to find a workaround for the one remaining
> table/informaltable problems I've had with PassiveTeX: the disappearing
> left border. I found that I can produce a table that looks correct in the
> PDF if I add an empty column to the left-hand side (increment the cols
> attribute by one, specify a colspec with a 0pt, and specify the colwidth as
> 0pt), I get a correct looking output. The attached tar.gz contains files
> table.fo and table.pdf, which demonstrate this. Unfortunately, as
> table.html demonstrates, the extra column makes for a rather odd looking
> html table border.
> 
> So, I thought I'd use the role attribute and apply the table templates via
> my customization layer. I built two versions of the table in my test
> document--one with five columns and one with the sixth, empty column. I
> assigned role="pdf" to the six-column table and role="html" to the five
> column table. In my html customization layer, I added
> 
> <xsl:template match="table">
>    <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="@role='html'">
>          <xsl:apply-templates/>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:when test="@role='pdf'" select="0"/>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>          <xsl:apply-templates/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> To my fo customization layer, I added the converse:
> 
> <xsl:template match="table">
>    <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="@role='pdf'">
>          <xsl:apply-templates/>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:when test="@role='html'" select="0"/>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>          <xsl:apply-templates/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> For the html, this worked. It processed through the five column table. For
> the pdf, it worked (in so far as it attached the left border), but created
> a new problem. The table caption and the top line got lopped off (see
> table2.fo and table2.pdf in the attached tar.gz).
> 
> Any idea why this didn't work?

I think you probably need to use xsl:apply-imports rather
than xsl:apply-templates?  Your customization is
replacing the default match on table, so when you do
apply-templates it only applies to its children.
Apparently that doesn't affect the HTML table processing
much, but it may mess up the block nesting for FO output.


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