Re: Broken tables

"Pawson, David" wrote:
> 
> I have an SGML document I'm converting to xml,
> and I'm having trouble with the tables :-)
> 
> Each table row, instead of tagging up the cell data,
> tags up the seperators!
> 
> E.g.
> 
> <TABROW><TT>ati</TT><COLSEP>ATI</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>r128</TT><COLSEP>ATI Rage 128</TABROW>
> 
> I'm almost convinced that it has to be a 'broken' solution,
> can anyone suggest anything that might be cleaner.

Since it's not well formed XML, I don't see how you can rely only on XML
tools...

The only "non well formness" seems to be the unclosed <COLSEP> though. 

You could use any text processing tool (including perl ;) to either
suppress <COLSEP> or replace it with <COLSEP/> and then process it
through something like :

<xsl:template match="TABROW">
<row>
<entry><xsl:value-of select="TT"/></entry>
<entry><xsl:value-of select="."/></entry>
</row>
</xsl:template>


Not that clean, but not that dirty either ;)

Eric

> Target is docbook
> 
> <table>
>  <title>None</title>
>  <tgroup cols="2">
>   <tbody>
>    <row>
>     <entry>ati</entry>
>     <entry>ATI</entry>
>    </row>
>    <row>
>     <entry>r128</entry>
>     <entry>ATI Rage 128</entry>
>    </row>
>   </tbody>
>  </tgroup>
> </table>
> 
> Fuller example of SGML below.
> Any help appreciated.
> Regards, DaveP
> 
> <TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" BORDER="1">
> <TABULAR CA="|l|l|">
> <TABROW>Driver Name<COLSEP>
> <TABROW>
> <TT>apm</TT><COLSEP>Alliance Pro Motion</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>ati</TT><COLSEP>ATI</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>chips</TT><COLSEP>Chips &amp; Technologies</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>cirrus</TT><COLSEP>Cirrus Logic</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>cyrix</TT> (*)<COLSEP>Cyrix MediaGX</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>fbdev</TT><COLSEP>Linux fbdev</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>glide</TT><COLSEP>Glide2x (3Dfx)</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>glint</TT><COLSEP>3Dlabs, TI</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>i740</TT><COLSEP>Intel i740</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>i810</TT><COLSEP>Intel i810</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>mga</TT><COLSEP>Matrox</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>neomagic</TT><COLSEP>NeoMagic</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>nv</TT><COLSEP>NVIDIA</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>r128</TT><COLSEP>ATI Rage 128</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>rendition</TT><COLSEP>Rendition</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>s3virge</TT><COLSEP>S3 ViRGE</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>sis</TT><COLSEP>SiS</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>tdfx</TT><COLSEP>3Dfx</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>tga</TT><COLSEP>DEC TGA</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>trident</TT><COLSEP>Trident</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>tseng</TT><COLSEP>Tseng Labs</TABROW>
> <TABROW><TT>vga</TT><COLSEP>Generic VGA</TABROW>
> </TABULAR>
> </TABLE>
> 
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