CALS table support

[Graydon]

This is effectively "complex table support for DITA".

Right now, entering tables is very tedious --

<table>
<tgroup>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>content</entry>
<entry>content</entry>
<entry>content</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>

to get one row and three columns.

It would be extremely helpful if the grid editor or something like it included support for entering table information in a natural-to-tables way and for applying attributes to selected groups of elements. (So the "valign" attribute could be set on an entire column of table elements, for example.)

We are using oXygen 7.2 in Eclipse to author DITA content.

Thanks!
-- Graydon

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

It would be extremely helpful if the grid editor or something like it included support for entering table information in a natural-to-tables way

I think a natural table editing will not be supported by the grid editor which will be available in the version 8.0 that will be released in this month. All the sibling elements with the same name are presented in the same column. We will consider adding support for editing CALS tables.


Regards,
Sorin

[Graydon]

We will consider adding support for editing CALS tables.

Thank you!

This is would be extremely useful for DITA. (In our case, Unicode-enforcing won when selecting an editor; it doesn't usually, compared to table support, from what I can gather talking to people who are implementing DITA solutions.)

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

The CALS table model is supported in the Author mode which was introduced later than Grid mode. The Author mode allows you to edit DITA topics, DITA maps or any other XML documents in a WYSIWYG like way driven by a CSS stylesheet.


Regards,
Sorin