Re: [docbook-apps] setting a particular table's column widths withxsl

Hi Bob,
   Thanks for the reply and sorry for the long reply.  Life got busy.

It's looking like I have no easy options here. I'll play around and see 
which works the best for us.

thanks again for the info,
Matt

On 04/10/2011 12:10 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> The stylesheets call a template named 'generate.colgroup', which
> recursively passes through the columns and calls a template named
> 'generate.col' for each column of the table. The 'generate.col' template
> outputs one fo:table-column element, normally using the width
> information provided by the XML input.
>
> You could customize the 'generate.colgroup' template from fo/table.xsl
> to first compute the tabstyle using this utility template included in
> DocBook XSL:
>
> <xsl:variable name="tabstyle">
> <xsl:call-template name="tabstyle"/>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> Then customize 'generate.colgroup' to add an xsl:when statement for your
> custom tabstyle value to output the set of four fo:table-column elements
> for your special tables, instead of calling 'generate.col'.
>
> Or you could customize 'generate.col' to handle each column separately
> based on the tabstyle value it computes.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> 
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Dew" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:35 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] setting a particular table's column widths with xsl
>
>
>> Hi again all,
>> I've got a particular type of table that I want to set column widths
>> on via xsl rather than having to do it in the xml source.
>>
>> The reason is that I have _lots_ of xml files that will use this type
>> of table and I don't want to have to maintain this if/when we change
>> the table layout.
>>
>> The html is easy with the css.
>> I'm having a problem with the pdf/ps output.
>>
>> I don't want to have to use 'colwidth' like this:
>> <informaltable tabstyle='encoding'>
>> <tgroup cols='4' align='left'>
>> <colspec colname='c1' colwidth="1.0*"/>
>> <colspec colname='c2' colwidth="3.0*"/>
>> <colspec colname='c3' colwidth="2.0*"/>
>> <colspec colname='c4' colwidth="3.0*"/>
>> <thead>
>> <row>
>> ...
>>
>> I want to be able to just do:
>> <informaltable tabstyle='encoding'>
>> <tgroup cols='4' align='left'>
>> <colspec colname='c1'/>
>> <colspec colname='c2'/>
>> <colspec colname='c3'/>
>> <colspec colname='c4'/>
>>
>> <thead>
>> <trow>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> I cant' figure out how to do this.
>> I've seen examples on using the table.layout template and such but I'm
>> not having any luck.
>>
>> IE:
>> <xsl:template name="table.layout">
>> <xsl:param name="table.content"/>
>> <fo:table width="100%" table-layout="fixed" column-width="1.0">
>> <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1.0)"/>
>> <fo:table-column/>
>> <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1.0)"/>
>> <fo:table-column/>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>> thanks,
>> marcoz
>>
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