[Openstack-docs] <table> conventions and PDF results

David Cramer david.cramer at rackspace.com
Mon Aug 12 16:34:24 UTC 2013


I've adapted an xslt I found to convert CALS tables to HTML tables and
posted it here for now (it's xslt 2.0, so use Saxon 9.x to run it):
http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/cals2html.xsl

I'm pondering putting it in our pipeline so that if anybody uses a CALS
table it's converted to html, but I'm about to cut a release with some
other stuff (olink etc) and don't want to bundle this in with that in
case this turns out to be 1/2 baked. I should cut that release today
though so I can have this in the SNAPSHOT after that so you can test it
and let me know if there are any issues.

I should really figure out what's up with fop and our CALS tables, but
this is something I can do quickly.

Regards,
David

Btw., here's the xslt I adapted:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200202/msg00666.html

On 08/12/2013 08:56 AM, David Cramer wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 02:11 AM, Summer Long wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I just ran into an interesting problem. Because my contributions have
>> been building, I missed that the conventions for <table> were different.
>>
>> This is what I used:
>> <table frame='all'><title>TableTitle</title>
>> <tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
>> <colspec colname='c1' colwidth="20%"/>
>> <colspec colname='c2' colwidth="80%"/>
> ...
> 
> Ok, that's a CALS table. I'm not sure why they're not formatted
> correctly in pdf. Let me see if I can either figure that out or do a
> preprocessing step to convert CALS to html before handing them off to
> the DocBook xslts.
> 
>> This looks fine in HTML (which is where I edit), but doesn't work in the
>> PDF.  Is there any way that we could change the build process so that it
>> works in PDF as well? Am sure other noobs might make the same mistake,
>> and content-wise, it doesn't make a difference.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Summer
>>
>> Summer Long
>> OpenStack Documentation
>> Engineering Content Services
>>
>> Red Hat Asia Pacific
>> Brisbane, Australia
>> slong at redhat.com <mailto:slong at redhat.com>
>>
>>
>>
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