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Count of rows in a DITA table
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:30 pm
by 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
Re: Count of rows in a DITA table
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:48 pm
by 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
Re: Count of rows in a DITA table
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:35 pm
by ann.jensen
Hi Radu,
That worked perfectly
thanks again,
Ann
Re: Count of rows in a DITA table
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:13 pm
by 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
Re: Count of rows in a DITA table
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:14 am
by 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
Re: Count of rows in a DITA table
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:59 pm
by ann.jensen
Thank you for making these things so doable