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

["Trevor Nicholls trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the links, I'll have a look now

BTW I am posting in plain text... and when I inspect my message in my 
sent folder it is plain text.... but when it gets sent back to me by the 
listserv all leading spaces are folded to \xA0 characters.

It's clearly NOT plain text, it just looks that way.

(I recently switched from Outlook to Thunderbird and this started 
happening on all listservs I belong to. It must be a problem at my end 
and I can only keep apologising until I find out how to fix it)

cheers
T

On 1/10/2026 04:08, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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