RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX table kluge

[Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>]

I haven't looked into this particular problem with Passivetex, but this sort
of solution seems to be entirely doable in an XSL customization layer.  That
way, you don't have to worry about keeping the contents of your two tables
in sync with each other.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Grace [mailto:dgrace@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:16 PM
To: Docbook-apps
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX table kluge



Okay, thanks to Bob's helpful correction, I am happy to report that this
fix works (the left border show up in PDF but the extra line does *not*
show up in HTML):

For tables and informaltables, make two copies. Assign the attribute role
="html" to the first table (or informaltable). Assign the attribute role
="pdf" to the second table/informaltable and add an extra column to the
table/informaltable (increment the cols number by one, add an empty entry
to the beginning of each row, and add a colspec with colnum="1" and
colwidth="0"). Add the following to your HTML customization layer:


<xsl:template match="table">
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@role='html'">
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="@role='pdf'" select="0"/>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="informaltable">
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@role='html'">
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="@role='pdf'" select="0"/>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

To your FO customization layer, add:

<xsl:template match="table">
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@role='pdf'">
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="@role='html'" select="0"/>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="informaltable">
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@role='pdf'">
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="@role='html'" select="0"/>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-imports/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

If you're turning these into anything other than PDFs and HTML, you'll need
to make appropriate additions for the other formats.

Dennis Grace

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