Re: Omnimark vs. XSL (Saxon) Challenge

> Input table:
> 
> <table>
>   <tbody>
>     <row>
>       <entry colspan="2" rowspan="2" 
width="70%">I</entry>
>       <entry colspan="2" 
width="30%">II</entry>
>     </row>
>     ...
>   </tbody>
> </table>
> 
> Desired output:
> 
> <table width="48mm 36mm 24mm 12mm">
>   <tbody>
>     <row>
>       <entry colspan="2" 
rowspan="2">I</entry>
>       <entry colspan="2">II</entry>
>     </row>
>     ...
>   </tbody>
> </table>
> 
> The main problem is the use of colspan and 
>rowspan, which makes it hard for any cell to
>know to which column it belongs. One has to 
>render the table from start to finish to 
>learn
>that for each cell.

I'm having some problem actually 
understanding this part, looking at it 
again, as your example output doesn't very 
well clarify for me what you want:
is it that you just want to know the 
dimensions of your table, with widths 
removed from the entrys, otherwise 
everything is the same?

the width being calculated from the 
following:

<xsl:param name ="table-width" select =" 
120 " />


<xsl:value-of select ="concat($table-width * 
substring-before($width-value, '%') * 
0.01, 'mm') " />
if a width is percentile, otherwise the 
width is taken from $width-value.
right?

can you tell me exactly why you're using 
<xsl:variable name =" random-nodes " select 
=" document('')//* " />

document('') refers to your xslt, how does 
this help you calculate your table size?







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