Re: Teatment of <th> inside HDITA documents

Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Aug 2024 16:36:01 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.xxe.general
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On 8/7/24 23:09, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> In the document about Lightweight DITA support in XMLmind, it is 
> mentioned that «most HTML5 elements are faithfully translated to their 
> DITA equivalent», and then some exceptions are mentioned. [1]
> 
> However, one exception that seems to not be mentioned, is that DITA 
> Converter (basically and/or literally) convertes the <th> element to a 
> <td> element (with center aligned text) whenever the <th> element occurs 
> any other place than inside a <thead> element. Thus, if it occurs ina 
> <tbody> element, the <th> becomes a <td style="text-align:center">.
> 
> If this is how it is meant to be, then it would be fair to mention this 
> in the hditaSupport document. Also, I would recomment to **bolden* the 
> text, so that it looks like a heading: <td 
> style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;">.
> 
> When I look at the ordinary DITA implementation in XMLmind, then I note 
> that row headings (that is: <th> inside <tbody>) are not supported.
> 
> Is this because DITA does not envision that row headings are necessary?
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/hditaSupport.html#hditaSupport
> 

I'm sorry but I don't understand any of this.

«most HTML5 elements are faithfully translated to their DITA 
equivalent», yes, hence HTML <td> and <th> are both translated to a DITA 
<entry>.

(DITA has simplified CALS tables, 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata02/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/base/table.html, 
and also <simpletable>s, 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata02/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/base/simpletable.html.)

I've attached sample Lightweight DITA "sample.ditamap" referencing 
sample HDITA "table.xhtml", itself containing a non-trivial table.

When I convert "sample.ditamap" to PDF or to an HTML page, everything 
looks just fine to me.

May be you have found an issue with the way a DITA (simplified CALS) 
<table> is converted to HTML, but this issue, if any, would not be 
related to the HDITA support in our Lightweight DITA implementation.


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sample.ditamap (text/xml, 242 B)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD LIGHTWEIGHT DITA Map//EN"
"lw-map.dtd">
<map>
  <topicmeta>
    <navtitle>A sample <b>LwDITA</b> map</navtitle>
  </topicmeta>

  <topicref href="table.html"/>
</map>

table.html (text/html, 2.4 KB)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />

    <title>Sample HDita table</title>
  </head>

  <body><article><h1>Sample HDita table</h1><table border="1" id="table3">
      <caption>A <code>table</code> containing a <code>thead</code>, a
      <code>tfoot</code> and a <code>tbody</code>.</caption>

      <colgroup style="width: 16%"></colgroup>

      <colgroup style="width: 16%"></colgroup>

      <colgroup style="width: 39%"></colgroup>

      <colgroup style="width: 15%"></colgroup>

      <colgroup style="width: 14%"></colgroup>

      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th colspan="5" scope="colgroup">Community Courses — Bath Autumn
          1997</th>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th abbr="Name" scope="col">Course Name</th>

          <th abbr="Tutor" scope="col">Course Tutor</th>

          <th scope="col">Summary</th>

          <th scope="col">Code</th>

          <th scope="col">Fee</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>

      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td>After the Civil War</td>

          <td>Dr. John Wroughton</td>

          <td>The course will examine the turbulent years in England after
          1646. <em>6 weekly meetings starting Monday 13th October.</em></td>

          <th>H27</th>

          <td style="text-align: right;">£32</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td>An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England</td>

          <td>Mark Cottle</td>

          <td>One day course introducing the early medieval period
          reconstruction the Anglo-Saxons and their society. <em>Saturday 18th
          October.</em></td>

          <th>H28</th>

          <td style="text-align: right;">£18</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td>The Glory that was Greece</td>

          <td>Valerie Lorenz</td>

          <td>Birthplace of democracy, philosophy, heartland of theater, home
          of argument. The Romans may have done it but the Greeks did it
          first. <em>Saturday day school 25th October 1997</em></td>

          <th>H30</th>

          <td style="text-align: right;">£18</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>

      <tfoot>
        <tr>
          <th abbr="Name" scope="col">Course Name</th>

          <th abbr="Tutor" scope="col">Course Tutor</th>

          <th scope="col">Summary</th>

          <th scope="col">Code</th>

          <th scope="col">Fee</th>
        </tr>
      </tfoot>
    </table></article></body>
</html>