B.S.Navin wrote:
> I am using XXE Standard Edition for editing some docbook documents. I
> had a revision history in the docbook document (shown below):
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";>
> <article>
> <articleinfo>
> <title>Test Doc</title>
>
> <revhistory>
> <revision>
> <revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
> <date>11 April, 2005</date>
> <authorinitials>XYZ</authorinitials>
> <revremark>Initial Draft</revremark>
> </revision>
> <revision>
> <revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
> <date>12 April, 2005</date>
> <authorinitials>XYZ</authorinitials>
> <revremark>After review comments</revremark>
> </revision>
> </revhistory>
> </articleinfo>
>
> <section>
> <title></title>
> <para></para>
> </section>
> </article>
>
> I wanted the revision history displayed as a table in the XXE view. So
> I created the following CSS:
>
> @import url(xxe-config:docbook/css/docbook.css);
>
> revhistory:before {
> content: "Revision History";
> }
>
> revhistory {
> display: table;
> border-style: solid;
> border-width: 1;
> margin: 1.33ex 0;
> }
>
> revision:before {
> display: inline;
> content: "";
> }
>
> revision {
> display: table-row;
> }
>
> revnumber, revision date, revision authorinitials, revremark, revdescription {
> display: table-cell;
> border-style: solid;
> border-width: 1;
> font-weight: normal;
> padding: 2;
> }
>
> revnumber:after, revision date:after, revision authorinitials:after {
> content: "";
> }
>
> The table gets created, but each of the children of the "revision" tag
> is displayed in a new row, although I have given the display type for
> the children as "table-cell".
>
> Any ideas as to why this is happening & how I can solve this?
The problem comes from this CSS rule (found in
<XXE_install_dir>/config/docbook/css/docbook2.imp) which applies to the
revhistory found in your example (rev.docb).
---
articleinfo > * {
display: block;
text-align: left; /* Reset paragraph styles */
font: normal normal 1em sans-serif;
color: black;
margin-left: 18ex;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 1.33ex;
margin-bottom: 1.33ex;
}
---
There is probably a bug in the CSS engine because, in XXE, this rule
seems to have a specificity (or a rank?) higher than the one of:
---
revhistory {
display: table;
...
}
---
The workaround is to artificially increase the specifity of your rule:
---
articleinfo > revhistory {
display: table;
...
}
---
See attached files for a working example. Rev.css (displayed in rev.gif)
contains an interesting variation on what you did.
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