Hi David,
Although I have not yet checked, I believe the problem is that the content of
the cells is not in a <para>. That is, your DocBook should look like:
<thead><row><entry><para>a1</para></entry><entry><para>a2</para></entry></row></thead>
<tbody><row><entry><para>b1</para></entry><entry><para>b2</para></entry></row></tbody>
As for being able to produce professional looking tables, there is some work to
do in setting up table column widths and borders properly. However, YMMV.
Cheers,
Steve Ball
On 01/03/2011, at 7:16 AM, David Hinds wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a very simple docbook file to WordML using the
> roundtrip XSL stylesheets. I'm having trouble with tables: all cell contents
> are missing after the conversion.
>
> Here is my input document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD
> DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/doc\
> book/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
> <article lang="en">
> <table frame='all'><title>Sample Table</title>
> <tgroup cols="2">
> <colspec colname='c1'/><colspec colname='c2'/>
> <thead><row><entry>a1</entry><entry>a2</entry></row></thead>
> <tbody><row><entry>b1</entry><entry>b2</entry></row></tbody>
> </tgroup>
> </table>
> </article>
>
> This renders ok in HTML with:
>
> xsltproc --path .../docbook-xsl/html -o test.html \
> docbook.xsl test.xml
>
> but with this:
>
> xsltproc --path .../docbook-xsl/roundtrip -o test.wml \
> --stringparam wordml.template template.xml \
> dbk2wordml.xsl test2.xml
>
> the cells in the resulting table are all empty, i.e. the resulting WordML
> looks like:
>
> <w:tc>
> <w:tcPr>
> <w:tcW w:w="" w:type="dxa"/>
> </w:tcPr>
> <w:p/>
> </w:tc>
>
> I get the same result with either xsltproc or saxon. I am using
> docbook-xsl-1.76.1.
>
> My long term goal is to be able to programmatically generate reports as
> templated, styled Word documents from asciidoc source files, with docbook as
> an intermediate format, in a linux environment. I need relatively few
> features: headers, body text, simple bullet lists, PNG images, and reasonably
> professional-looking tables (where that means I need control over column
> alignment and borders).
>
> -- Dave
>
>
