It looks like your second example assumes that no units would have been provided. In my case, I thought I would have to write a long nested XPath if statement to handle the unit conversions for colwidth. Some content authors might have used different units such as in, cm, em, etc.. I'm just asking f...

Aha! It's the old 0px width trick! Thanks so much. Works like a charm.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

John

It sounds like there is no workable solution at the moment. There's no way we can go back to thousands of tables in our CMS and add outputclass attributes for different widths of tables. If the fixed width is wider than the sum of the column widths, the rendering engine adds a blank area that looks ...

That's a bit problematic. It implies that the stylesheet would have to know the sum of the fixed widths in the colspecs for the columns in advance, which is unworkable for all possible tables the selector might apply to... unless I can somehow employ the oxy_xpath CSS function to do so, which is mak...

I'm having difficulty trying to get this to work with DITA tgroup elements. DITA appears to support an "align" attribute on tgroup elements, where the table element does not. table tgroup[align="center"] { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; /* background-color: red; Ensure th...

It appears that the XSLFO schema in the current version of Oxygen (15) does not support XSL-FO 1.1 constructs still.

Can you confirm?

Is the only option to try to patch it?

John

Hello Costin and crew, The origin of my question is a current effort to understand which stock Oxygen UI features can be hidden/shown/moved via the layout facility and which changes might require Java customization. I thought that if there was a human readable version of the layouts, I could deduce ...

I understand that it's probably not at the top of anyone's list, including mine, but I was wondering why the formats of Oxygen layout files are binary and not XML. Legacy?

John

I have a DITA <note> element: <note>This is a DITA note element. <ph>This is an embedded ph element that is styled in this horrific background-color.</ph> If I use the < and > entities as in "3 < 4 or 4 > 3", the the (>) symbol is rendered with a different background-color (#F0F0F0), which...

Oxygen doesn't appear to support the CSS3 "transform" attribute. The latest versions of the big web browsers recently supported it as a custom attribute, such as "-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg)". Would such a feature be a candidate for a home-grown (Java) renderer that honors y...

Thanks Radu, I'm going to build a quick test of your suggestion in your first paragraph to make sure I've got it. As far as frameworks go, let me know if the following would be a reasonable approach for packaging customizations from the framework side of things. If we want to leave the stock Oxygen ...

Frameworks and projects are both described as a means for sharing customizations/configurations with multiple users. Many of our needs would be addressed by a custom framework, but there are many preference options that look like they can only be shared through a project's xpr file. Do both need to ...

Thanks for the quick reply!

Step 4 is a bit easier now that I've found the "Reload" action bound to a toolbar and to the F5 key shortcut.

I've done due diligence searching in the forums and documentation, but it looks like Oxygen does not have the CSS debugging capability for Author mode that browsers like Firefox and Chrome do for detecting the source of each element's active CSS attributes, whether computed or literal. It appears th...

It would help the pace of my debugging if I could disable all but the current breakpoint in the debugger margin. The context menu over a breakpoint in the debugger margin provides two options: * Disable Breakpoint * Remove I know I can go to the Breakpoints panel and achieve the same effect with mul...

The lack of multi-monitor support for editor panels makes it difficult to debug indented stylesheets on a laptop. The source XML, XSL, and FO output windows become very narrow, thus requiring manual resizing or going in and out of source/debug perspectives. (I can use my iPad as an external monitor,...

Oxygen reports errors in XSL transforms if a variable was not defined in the same file; its lexical scope. The variables are global in nature declared in a master XSL file that imports the one I'm using as well as many others. Is there a switch of some type to tell oXygen to look within a directory ...

Adrian, Thanks so much. It works great now. I'm both glad and embarrassed that it was that simple. That's what a blind copy and paste will do to ya. Moving on: The "description" element has HTML embedded within it as a value, replete with entities. I cheated by skipping over most of it by ...

Hi all, I'm trying to parse an Adobe Acrobat PDF annotation file. This is my first transform, so forgive the ugliness. I'm just trying to get something to work. Everything is working fine except for trying to match a particular child element that has a namespace prefix in its name. Here's an excerpt...