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?
Thanks.
(See attached file: ptextable.tar.gz)
Dennis Grace
Information Developer
IBM Linux Technology Center
(512) 838-3937 T/L 678-3937 cell: (512)-296-7830
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