[oXygen-user] Understanding @colsep and @rowsep

[Michael Boudreau]

For a CALS table, @frame="all" draws a border around all four outside edges of the table; it does not affect the interior lines. See https://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/options/OASIS/tag-library/19990315/index.html

To indicate a table with all the grid lines visible, CALS requires @frame="all" as well as @colsep="1" and @rowsep="1" on all <entry> elements (you can omit colsep on the rightmost cells and rowsep on the finalrow).

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From: oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces at oxygenxml.com> on behalf of Frank Dissinger <frank.dissinger at cgs-oris.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 9:26 AM
To: Oxygen User Mailing List <oxygen-user at oxygenxml.com>
Subject: [oXygen-user] Understanding @colsep and @rowsep

Hi all,



Can someone shed some light on how the @colsep and @rowsep attributes are used for CALS tables? The information I found is not clear and detailed enough for me.



I understand that these attributes create separator lines for colums and rows. Do I only need these attributes when I do not set @frame="all" to create lines for particular rows or columns only?



For a normal CALS table with lines for all rows and columns (i.e. like a grid), is enough to set @frame="all" or do I additionally need these attributes? The code that Oxygen creates (see below) with these settings (i.e. without these attributes) ...

[cid:part1.XSPDnEEs.LQ0hfDOH at cgs-oris.com]

does not have these @colsep and @rowsep attributes, only @frame="all", and is rendered as desired with my CHM and PDF transformations.



I have several tables with @colsep/@rowsep="0" or ="1". These attributes may have been added by FrameMaker when I converted unstructured content to DITA. Can I safely remove all of these attributes when I just want a CALS table with row and line separators every (like a grid)?



Regards,

Frank


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