question about td's

[Doug Davis]

Hi,
  hopefully this is the right list... I'm working on one of the WSRA specs and I can't seem to figure out how to add a line-break in a table cell (TD).  From the dtd given to us we're now allowed to use <p>'s in <td>'s and <br>'s are allowed to be used at all in the entire doc.  Any ideas on how to make this work w/o modifying the standard dtd given to us?
The files are at: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/edcopies/

thanks
-Doug
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[David Carlisle]

Depending on why you want line breaks it may make sense to have

<phrase role="something">jg gasca</phrase>
<phrase role="something">kjhg kjyfg uft </phrase>
<phrase role="something">ausxh iquw qiwu  </phrase>


together with

<xsl:template match="phrase[@role='something']">
<xsl:apply=templates/>
<xsl:if test="following-sibling::*"><br/></xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

in a local xsl file that imports the main one.

David

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[Doug Davis]

Thanks David.  
I basically did what you suggested and added special logic 'phrase'.  While I was in there I added logic to support a role to "bold" to add <b>'s around the text since <b> doesn't seem to be supported either.
It seems odd to me that certain things are not supported by default in the xsl - like <br/> or even <b>.  Would you (or anyone else) happen to know why such basic things were purposely excluded?

thanks
-Doug
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David Carlisle <davidc@...>

01/28/2009 09:54 AM

To	Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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Subject	Re: question about td's

Depending on why you want line breaks it may make sense to have

<phrase role="something">jg gasca</phrase>
<phrase role="something">kjhg kjyfg uft </phrase>
<phrase role="something">ausxh iquw qiwu  </phrase>


together with

<xsl:template match="phrase[@role='something']">
<xsl:apply=templates/>
<xsl:if test="following-sibling::*"><br/></xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

in a local xsl file that imports the main one.

David

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[David Carlisle]

>  Would you (or anyone else) happen to know why such basic things were
>  purposely excluded?

It's been worked on from time to time since, and many groups (including
Math) have worked on their own copies (ours are all xslt 2 for example)
but the basic design goes back to just implementing the minimum required
to typeset the xml spec using those parts of a pre-xslt 1 draft of xslt
that were implemented in some beta release of xt, so I don't think
extensive coverage for possible future requirements was highest
priority of the original designers:-)


David

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[Doug Davis]

ok - thanks for the help/insight.

thanks
-Doug
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David Carlisle <davidc@...>

01/28/2009 10:44 AM

To	Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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Subject	Re: question about td's

>  Would you (or anyone else) happen to know why such basic things were
>  purposely excluded?

It's been worked on from time to time since, and many groups (including
Math) have worked on their own copies (ours are all xslt 2 for example)
but the basic design goes back to just implementing the minimum required
to typeset the xml spec using those parts of a pre-xslt 1 draft of xslt
that were implemented in some beta release of xt, so I don't think
extensive coverage for possible future requirements was highest
priority of the original designers:-)


David

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