Re: [docbook-apps] Setting HTML Colwidths

["Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>]

You can thank Norm Walsh for writing the stylesheets with
enough subroutine facilities that you can do what you want
pretty easily.

There is a template named "colspec.colwidth" that takes a column
name as a parameter and returns the width specification from
the colspec element for that column.  You will need to customize
the match="entry|entrytbl" template in xhtml/table.xsl (it is a big one).

The line <xsl:element name="{$cellgi}"> starts the <td> or <th>
element, and that is followed by several <xsl:attribute> steps.
You can add one like this:

       <xsl:variable name="colwidth">
          <xsl:call-template name="colspec.colwidth">
            <xsl:with-param name="colname" select="@colname"/>
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:variable>

        <xsl:if test="$colwidth != ''">
          <xsl:attribute name="style">
            <xsl:text>width: </xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="$colwidth"/>
            <xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
          </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:if>

This assumes your entry elements all have the correct colname attribute on
them.  That's a lot of trouble, but that's what your example showed.
If you don't have that attribute, then you can use the $entry.colnum
variable that is computed earlier in the template to derive the column name.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Weston" <phil700@xmsg.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Setting HTML Colwidths


> Hiya
>
> I'm working on a method of importing HTML into a Word document and have
come across a problem with importing a table.
>
> Given a Docbook table of the form:
>
> <table>
>    <tgroup>
>      <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="30pt"/>
>      <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="150pt"/>
>      <tbody>
>        <row>
>          <entry colname="col1"><para>MyFirstCol</para></entry>
>          <entry colname="col2"><para>My2ndCol</para></entry>
>        </row>
>      </tbody>
>    </tgroup>
> </table>
>
> Using the XHTML Stylesheets with my own customisation layers (with no
table customisations yet) gives:
>
> <table>
>   <colgroup>
>     <col width="30pt" align="left">
>     <col width="150pt" align="left">
>   </colgroup>
>   <tbody>
>     <tr valign="top">
>       <td valign="top"><p>MyFirstCol</p></td>
>       <td valign="top"><p>My2ndCol</p></td>
>    </tr>
>   </tbody>
> </table>
>
> Viewing with a Browser works fine as you'd expect and even opening in Word
gives the impression that it's fine too. However the problem is that Word
doesn't fix the Column widths - adding more text to "col1" for example,
stretches the column width to suite the new text.
>
> It seems I can force Word to harden the column widths by setting a style
attribute on every <td> and <th> (eg: <td valign="top"
style="width:30.0pt;">).
>
> Can anyone help with the XSLT required to do this? I'm having difficulty
understanding how I can track which <entry> I'm processing and therefore
which colspec.colwidth I need...
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
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