On 08/11/2017 03:09 AM, Sarrel, Marc A (393A) wrote:
I just downloaded a trial version of XSL Utility 5.4.5 and am impressed.
We need a tool that converts from DocBook 5 to Word. The first run
with our test document was successful, except for one thing.
We often put lists of items inside the cell of a table. When I convert
to Word (using db5ToDocx or db5ToWML) or RTF (db5toRTF), I see a blank
line (just a pilcrow) at the top of each cell that contains a list.
Typically, our tag hierarchy looks like this:
<table><tgroup><tbody><row><entry><simplelist><member>…
Is there a way to change the transform so that the blank line never appears?
Yes, in "fo/lists.xsl", at line 663, replace[*]:
<fo:table id="{$id}" xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
by:
<fo:table id="{$id}">
that is, please remove the vertical space added before the <fo:table>
used to represent a vertical DocBook <simplelist>:
<xsl:attribute-set name="normal.para.spacing">
<xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">1em</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">0.8em</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">1.2em</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
Here's what happens:
When a fo:table has some vertical margins, it seems that XMLmind XSL-FO
Converter generates a empty paragraph as a trick to implement this
vertical space. It's probably (didn't check that by looking at the code)
because, unlike a Word paragraph, a Word table cannot have vertical margins.
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[*] It's of course possible to do that in a less simplistic way. That
is, discard xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing", but only when
the <simplelist> is the first child of an <entry>.
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PS: All this is in fact a XMLmind XSL-FO Converter documented limitation:
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space-before | yes | Conditionality not supported.
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See http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/conformance.html
By default, the space-before has a conditionality equal to "discard"
(https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/#space-before). This means that, at the
beginning of a table cell, the space-before set for a vertical DocBook
<simplelist> should be ignored.
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Conditionality is an enumerated value which controls whether a
space-specifier has effect at the beginning or end of a reference-area
or a line-area. Possible values are retain and discard; a conditional
space-specifier is one for which this value is discard.
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See https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/#spacecond
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