Re: Teatment of <th> inside HDITA documents

On 18.08.2024 09:45 Hussein Shafie:

> On 8/17/24 22:34, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>
>> The good news is that, as long as the header cells occurs in the 
>> first column, the hack is not necessary. You can instead just make 
>> sure that the DITA converter adds <table rowheader="firstcol"> 
>
> @rowheader reference:
>
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata02/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/attributes/calsTableAttributes.html#oet-atts__rowheader 
>

Thanks! So, when applied to <colspec>, it is possible to define the 
cells of any column as a row header cells. Great.

However, it seems like the XXE/DITA Converter combination only — though 
currently only stylistically, as you say below — support <table 
rowheader="firstcol">.

>> whenever the first column of the HTML table contains <th> elements.
>>
>> Hope this made sense.
>
> Yes, it certainly does.
>
> 1) Currently rowheader='firstcol' seems to be supported but the 
> <entry>s found in the first column are translated to <td class="entry 
> table-header-style">, not to <th>.

Yes, I notice that now. So it turns out that XXE currently applies the 
hack that I proposed ...)I hope you can instead make it output <th> ... !

> ---
> .table-header-style {
>     font-weight: bold;
>     background-color: #E0E0E0;
> }
> ---
>
> 2) The HDITA support does not detect the case where all the cells 
> found in the first column of an XHTML table are <th> and thus does not 
> generate a CALS table having rowheader='firstcol'.
>
> To be frank, it is unlikely that we'll ever implement the (legit) 
> enhancement that you suggest. We are not sure that Lightweight DITA is 
> widely used (if at all)  and even if it is, we don't think that HDITA 
> is its most popular component.

One reason I started to look  at HDITA was because of the seeming 
lacking support of DITA tables in XXE. So, while I would of course 
encourage you, for HDITA documents, to support conversion of <th> in 
first column to <table rowheader="firstcolumn">, how about, to begin 
with, improving the DITA table editor of XXE?

Because, currently, for DITA tables, the Toolbar table tools only has 
two options for new tables: no headers or a row header. (Also, when 
using <table rowheader="firstcol">, there is also no visual rendering, 
inside XXE, of the first column being a header cell column.)

How about adding the same 4 options as for DOCBOOK and HTML tables: 1) 
no headers, 2) header row, 3) header column as well as 4) both header 
row and header column?!

With regards
Leif Halvard Silli


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