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

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@oxygenxml.com> on behalf of Frank Dissinger <frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 9:26 AM
To: Oxygen User Mailing List <oxygen-user@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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