Count of rows in a DITA table

[ann.jensen]

Hi,
Is there any way of identifying the number of rows in a DITA table through Oxygen XML Author?
Thanks in advance,
Ann

[Radu]

Hi Ann,

Maybe if the caret is inside the table, you could run an XPath using our XPath toolbar with something like:

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ancestor-or-self::table/count(.//row)

Regards,
Radu

[ann.jensen]

Hi Radu,
That worked perfectly
thanks again,
Ann

[ann.jensen]

Is it possible to use something like CSS in Oxygen Author to automatically include this value in the DITA table title.
Regards,
Ann

[Radu]

Hi Ann,

Sure, you need to use a CSS selector like:

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*[class~="topic/table"] > *[class~="topic/title"]:after{

    content: "  [Number of rows]:" oxy_xpath('ancestor::table/count(.//row)');

}

The oxy_xpath may induce editing performance problems though so please do not use it if you have very large topics.

More about using your custom editing CSS with DITA:

http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2016/10/custo ... iting.html

Regards,
Radu

[ann.jensen]

Thank you for making these things so doable