Count of rows in a DITA table

Post by **ann.jensen** » Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:30 pm

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

Post by **Radu** » Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:48 pm

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

Post by **ann.jensen** » Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:35 pm

Hi Radu,
That worked perfectly

thanks again,
Ann

Post by **ann.jensen** » Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:13 pm

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

Post by **Radu** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:14 am

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

Post by **ann.jensen** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:59 pm

Thank you for making these things so doable