Ok, that makes sense. I can't find the .java samples referred to anywhere in my current 5.9 package or in the .zip file I downloaded from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/developer.shtml. Is there somewhere else I should look?
Thanks, Jeff. -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:12 AM To: Jeff Hooker Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [XXE] Using the colspec element to set table column color in the CSS On 04/10/2014 10:30 PM, Jeff Hooker wrote: > > I've modified my DITA PDF and xhtml publishing scripts to read an > attribute (bg_color) from colspec, row, and entry elements and reflect > the defined color in the output. Now I am working on the GUI for this. > > In the CSS presentation layer for XMLmind, it was quite easy to write > commands to set the colors on the elements, and easy to make the > interface reflect the color chosen when the attribute is set at the > entry or row level. Making a whole column in a table reflect a color > selection made on its colspec element, however, is proving difficult. > I would prefer to do this in CSS somehow rather than writing a command > to actually add the bg_color attribute to every individual entry in > the column, partly because this would involve having to re-apply it > every time I added a new row. > > Are there any widgets in XMLmind that connect entry elements with > their colspec elements? The xpath statement for intelligently reaching > backwards from each entry element and finding the right colspec > element is proving to be problematical. --> It's not a widget. It's a CSS stylesheet extension (which must be coded in Java) called "StyleSpecs". The StyleSpecs you need computes the background color of an entry based on the bg_color attribute of the entry itself, its parent row, its colspec element (you'll define the lookup order you prefer). References: * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/styleext.html#solution2 * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmledit/stylesheet/StyleSpecs.html --> The XHTML configuration has an implementation of StyleSpecs which does this for style="background-color: XXX; background-image: YYY;" of the cols and colgroups corresponding to a td or th. The relevant .java files are: * src/com/xmlmind/xmleditext/xhtml/table/StyleSpecsImpl.java * src/com/xmlmind/xmleditext/xhtml/table/TableSupport.java (registers StyleSpecsImpl with the CSS engine) The implementation for XHTML is a bit complicated because it needs to access the CSS style of an element. What you want, based on the value of attribute bg_color, should be much easier to implement. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
