Re: [xsl] InDesign IDML table conversion

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ganesh,

On 8/17/2012 9:11 AM, Ganesh Babu N wrote:
> I am trying to find out the number tds before the td[@morerows], so
> that i can increase the cell count accordingly. But it is not giving
> the exact number of tds. For the first set it should give 0 and 2 and
> for the 2nd set it should give 3 . But it is giving 2 everywhere.
> Please suggest me where I am going wrong.

Unfortunately, your question can't really be answered as given.

This is basically because CALS tables support several different ways of 
assigning cells to columns, and accordingly lets you design tables in 
which some of the cells are only implicit, as if to appear between 
consecutive cells assigned to non-consecutive columns. Combine with this 
the fact that cells in earlier rows can spill into a row by virtue of 
their @morerows assignment (as your example shows) and ... you begin to 
get the picture.

This means that you are confronted with the question of whether you have 
to support arbitrary CALS tables (any table that conforms to a CALS or 
OASIS spec, which you need to look at), or only a controlled subset, 
whose semantics you can specify fully.

If you need to do the first, you might look at the Docbook XSLT 
distribution, which has code supporting CALS tables.

But I'd recommend limiting the inputs to a subset of CALS if you can. 
For example, if you could arrange for all your column assignments to be 
given explicitly on every cell, this becomes significantly easier.

I'm sorry this isn't much help. :-(

Cheers anyhow,
Wendell

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