Docbook PDF output Table customization

[Felix]

Good morning!
I created a DocBook5 file with Oxygen XML Editor 14.1.
Now I need some customized tables for the PDF output.
I want to customize the backgroundcolor, font-size and font-color.
I don't want to customize all tables.
I tried to figure out how to do that.
I created a customization layer. My Idea was to write a template with the table customizations and add it to the customization layer. But that's my problem because I'm not very familiar with xslt and xsl-fo coding.
Can I use the "role"-attribute to customize a table e.g.

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<xsl:template match="para"[@role='customtable']">

?
And what is the code for customizing the backgroundcolor, font-size and font-color?
I use the informaltables because I don't want to have table headlines.

Best regards from Germany

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

In your Docbook customization layer you should add a template based on your table marker, which is @role='customtable', similar with the following template from the file [Oxygen-install-dir]/frameworks/docbook/xsl/fo/htmltbl.xsl:

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<xsl:template match="d:table|d:informaltable" mode="htmlTable">

For example if you want to set the color and font size for all the table cells you can set them on the fo:table element:

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<xsl:template match="d:table[@role='customtable']|d:informaltable[@role='customtable']" mode="htmlTable">

    ...

        <fo:table background-color="yellow" font-size="24" color="blue">

This example is for the HTML table model in the Docbook XML documents. If you are not familiar with XSLT and XSL-FO I recommend avoiding the CALS table model because it seems harder to customize. The customization process is similar but more complicated in the XSLT stylesheet.


Regards,
Sorin

[Felix]

Hello sorin,

thank you for your quick respond.
I think that's what I need.
I tried to implement it but I get errors using the HTML table model.
My table inside my docbook-file looks like this:

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<informaltable role="customtable">

   <tbody>

      <tr>

         <td>Text</td>

         <td>Text</td>

         <td><mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="images/test.png"></imagedata><imageobject></mediaobject></td>

      </tr>

   </tbody>

</informaltable>

The table is ok until I add the "role"-attribute. If I add the "role"-attribute to the "informaltable"-element I get the following error-message from the validator: "E [Jing] element 'tbody' not allowed here; expected element 'alt', 'indexterm', 'info', mediaobject','textobject' or 'tgroup'".
If I add for example the "alt"-element the message still appears.
Any ideas what's the problem with the "role"-attribute?

Regards

Felix

[sorin_ristache]

Hi Felix,

The table is ok until I add the "role"-attribute. If I add the "role"-attribute to the "informaltable"-element I get the following error-message from the validator: "E [Jing] element 'tbody' not allowed here; expected element 'alt', 'indexterm', 'info', mediaobject','textobject' or 'tgroup'".

In fact informaltable is a CALS table and if you add the role attribute the content model of the informaltable element required by the Docbook schema is changed. I suggest using a table instead of an informaltable, that is the HTML table model instead of the CALS model:

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    <table role="customtable">

        <caption/>

        <tbody>

            <tr>

                <td>Text</td>

                <td>Text</td>

                <td>

                    <mediaobject>

                        <imageobject>

                            <imagedata fileref="images/test.png"/>

                        </imageobject>

                    </mediaobject>

                </td>

            </tr>

        </tbody>

    </table>

Regards,
Sorin

[Felix]

Yesss the table-element works!

Thank you very much sorin!