On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Vincent Hennebert <[email protected]>wrote:
> I’ve started to work on this. Any feedback about the proposed extension > from any interested party will be most welcome. > > Thanks, > Vincent > > On 19/09/12 12:22, [email protected] wrote: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53902 > > > > Priority: P2 > > Bug ID: 53902 > > Summary: Add scope to header table cell > > > > In XSL-FO, header table cells (fo:table-cell elements that descend from > an > > fo:table-header/footer object) inherently encompass a column of the > table. This > > is due to the way tables are broken down into fo:table-header, > fo:table-body > > and fo:table-footer. > > > > There is no XSL-FO construct to say that a table-cell is a header cell > > encompassing a /row/ of the table. It can be achieved graphically by > e.g., > > using a bold font for the first cell of a row, but the structure won't > reflect > > that. > > > > This becomes a problem when creating accessible PDF documents, where it > is > > desirable to store the scope of a header in the logical structure. PDF > defines > > the standard Scope attribute for that (see Section 10.7.5 of the PDF 1.5 > > Reference). > > > > I propose to add an extension property to fo:table-cell in order to > convey that > > information. Along with setting the 'role' property to 'TH', it would > become > > possible to define a cell as being a header cell with a scope of Row. > Something > > like this: > > <fo:table-cell role="TH" fox:scope="Row"> > > ... > > </fo:table-cell> > > > > The fox:scope property would have an enumerated value of 'Column' > (default), > > 'Row' or 'Both'. > > my only suggestion would be to use lower case only when specifying values for these attributes, and also 'TH' should be expanded to an english word, like 'head' or 'header'; also, i'm not sure why two attributes are needed, when one fox attribute could do the job
