AW: XHTML to Cals table conversion

Hi Andrew,

Ah, thanks for the information.
I already have a stylesheet for producing XHTML tables from the cals model.
Let's see if I can find an XHTML to Oasis conversion...

wbr,
Roman

> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: andrew welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 01. Mdrz 2006 14:39
> An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re:  XHTML to Cals table conversion
>
> On 3/1/06, Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE)
> <Roman.Huditsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just looking for a stylesheet, which can transform
> XHTML to Cals
> > tables.
> > But I couldn't fin anything useful on the net.
> > Has anyone done such an XSLT yet? I just read that it is very
> > difficult to write one because of the raspan behavior of XHTML
> > tables....
> > Am thankful for any hint :)
> > Otherwise I'll have to try to write it myself :(
>
> Converting an XHTML table to a CALS table should be
> relatively straight forward, as I would think there's an
> equivalent in CALS markup for every element/attribute in an
> XHTML - eg rowspan in XHTML, morerows in CALS, so you should
> be able to do a 1 for 1 mapping.
>
> Going the other way, from CALS to XHTML is much much harder,
> because CALS is so slack, so you're lucky there :)
>
> You may find an XHTML -> Oasis conversion out there: the
> Oasis table model is a simpler subset of Cals used by Docbook
> (I think) so someone may have written one already (although
> again, usually the conversion is the other way around).
>
> cheers
> andrew