[oXygen-user] Understanding @colsep and @rowsep

[Frank Dissinger]

Thank you!


Hm... These attributes were set on <table> and <tgroup> in my DITA 
files, but not on <entry>, and the attribute value was sometimes = "0", 
sometimes = "1". Nevertheless the tables rendered correctly, but perhaps 
only because I have set up the CSS and MiramoPDF styles to create frames 
for all table cells for all <table> elements. I'll have to investigate 
this...


So perhaps, to keep my DITA data portable and to ensure they are 
rendered correctly with other transformations, it would be safer to also 
set @colsep and @rowsep to "1". But really for each <entry>? Wouldn't it 
be enough for <table>?


Frank


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Am 12.04.2023 um 16:36 schrieb 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) ...
>
> 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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