Hi folks:

I found this discussion from 2008: 
https://forums.adobe.com/message/1279946#1279946, and this helpful answer from 
Russ Ward in 2010: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/577820?tstart=0, but I don't 
see the solution that I'm looking for. My manager (a software development guy) 
would like to create an XML file that I can import into FrameMaker that doesn't 
specify the width of each column. He's taking output from Jira, and people can 
create tables in the Description field there, but he has no way of knowing how 
wide the columns are. He figures that if HTML can automatically size the 
columns to suit the contents, surely FrameMaker can do this too (I'm not so 
sure).

I've tried it myself, and the column widths in the table template apply when 
you don't specify widths in XML. If you have more columns than are in your 
template, it seems to use the width of the last templated column. And the 
tables might contain graphics as well as text.

Anyone have any better ideas?

I'm using FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7. I think my manager is using Perl or some 
other scripting language. Jira outputs HTML as well as some other text format.

Fei Min Lorente
Senior Technical Communicator
Medical and Wireless Division
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