Re: [xsl] request: flattening or normalising tables with spanned cells

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Trevor,

I, too, find it difficult to read. But you can try our adaptations of Andrew Welch's method. For CALS tables it's https://github.com/transpect/xslt-util/blob/master/calstable/xsl/normalize.xsl, for HTML tables, it's https://github.com/transpect/htmltables/.

In the latter repo there's html-tables-normalize.xsl that imports http://transpect.io/xslt-util/lengths/xsl/lengths.xsl. This URI doesn't resolve out of the box. In our pipelines, we use a catalog resolver for these URIs. But you can clone https://github.com/transpect/xslt-util, keep only the lengths subdirectory (or even lengths.xsl alone) and import lengths.xsl via relative path.

Gerrit

On 30.09.2026 16:29, Trevor Nicholls trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sorry I don't know how that happened, what's below should be easier to read