Merged <th> Not Displaying colspan in html output

[dgallo]

We are using Oxygen 18.1 responsive webhelp to create output.

The first row in the <thead> element is not spanning properly in the html output. It appears the colspan attribute is not being assigned at all to the <th> element inside <thead><tr>...</tr></thead>. If I add it manually, the table appears correctly.

We have a table with the following xml (please note comments in the <thead> element):

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    <table frame="none"

        id="square_plate_torsion_example_simulation_results_r_table_mn4_kgj_r1b">

        <title>Displacement</title>

        <tgroup cols="13">

            <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1"/>

            <colspec colname="c2" colnum="2"/>

            <colspec colname="c3" colnum="3"/>

            <colspec colname="c4" colnum="4"/>

            <colspec colname="c5" colnum="5"/>

            <colspec colname="c6" colnum="6"/>

            <colspec colname="c7" colnum="7"/>

            <colspec colname="c8" colnum="8"/>

            <colspec colname="c9" colnum="9"/>

            <colspec colname="c10" colnum="10"/>

            <colspec colname="c11" colnum="11"/>

            <colspec colname="c12" colnum="12"/>

            <colspec colname="c13" colnum="13"/>

            <thead>

                <row>

                    <entry morerows="1"/>

                    <entry namest="c2" nameend="c5" valign="middle" align="center">2

                                <!--This should have a colspan="4"--></entry>

                    <entry namest="c6" nameend="c9" align="center" valign="middle"

                                >4<!--This should have a colspan="4"--></entry>

                    <entry namest="c10" nameend="c11" align="center" valign="middle"

                                >8<!--This should have a colspan="2"--></entry>

                    <entry namest="c12" nameend="c13" align="center" valign="middle"

                                >8<!--This should have a colspan="2"--></entry>

                </row>

                <row>

                    <entry valign="middle">Q</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">BT</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">BT4</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">BAZ</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">QE</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">BT1</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">BT4</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">BAZ</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">DT</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">C0</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">DT</entry>

                    <entry valign="middle">C0</entry>

                </row>

            </thead>

            <tbody>

                <row>

                    <entry>IE</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                </row>

                <row>

                    <entry>HE</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                </row>

                <row>

                    <entry>DZ</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                    <entry align="center" valign="middle">2.7</entry>

                </row>

            </tbody>

        </tgroup>

    </table>

[Radu]

Hi,

Are you using DITA OT 1.8 or 2.x? You can check this out in the Oxygen Preferences->DITA page.
I tested this on my side with Oxygen 18.1 and 19.0, I also added rowsep="1" colsep="1" on the table element to see better how the cells span.
For me the WebHelp output looks like this:

files/table-span-dot2.x.png

and the generated HTML files contain the @colspan numbers specified on the th cells:

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                        <tr>

                            <th class="entry" rowspan="2" valign="top" id="d3700e61"> </th>

                            <th class="entry" colspan="4" align="center" valign="middle" id="d3700e63">2

                                </th>

                            <th class="entry" colspan="4" align="center" valign="middle" id="d3700e66">4</th>

                            <th class="entry" colspan="2" align="center" valign="middle" id="d3700e69">8</th>

                            <th class="entry" colspan="2" align="center" valign="middle" id="d3700e72">8</th>

                        </tr>

Regards,
Radu