--- Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. Empty > table-bodies make no > sense but it makes life easier for stylesheet > writers not to have to > work around them.
I don't see the benefits. In XSLT, one does a test to see if there is data in the source XML that would constitute a fo:table-row. If so, then you activate a template that creates the fo:table. Next, within the template that creates the fo:table (and assorted other fo's including the fo:table-body), you call another template for each fo:table-row. This is standard XSLT programming -- an empty fo:table-body wouldn't be needed, and doesn't appear to be useful for the developer. If there aren't any to-be fo:table-rows in the input XML, the template that creates the fo:table is never called, and so there is no empty fo:table-body necessary. Glen
