tei tables -> fo -> pdf through fop

[Eric Lease Morgan <em...@nd.edu>]

Does anybody here have experience converting TEI tables -> FO -> PDF 
using fop?

I am (slowly) marking up sets of etexts in TEI/XML. I plan to provide 
full-text searching against the collection and disseminated the whole 
thing in various ebook formats. You can see what have done so far here:

   http://infomotions.com/alex2/

I have written various xslt stylesheets to convert my TEI to HTML, 
SHTML, and plain text. My stylesheet to convert TEI to FO has hit a 
roadblock when it comes to tables. It only seems to support fixed-width 
cells and wants to know exactly how many columns there will be in each 
table. Given the wide variety of table types I am to encounter, this 
seem rather limiting. I am having a tough time writing a TEI -> FO 
stylesheet that FOP can use. I'm getting desperate, and I'm about to 
mark up my tables as pre-formatted paragraph. Ick.

Does anybody here convert their TEI files into PDF documents, and if 
so, how do you handle table data?

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame


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Re: tei tables -> fo -> pdf through fop

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> roadblock when it comes to tables. It only seems to support fixed-width 
> cells and wants to know exactly how many columns there will be in each 
> table. Given the wide variety of table types I am to encounter, this 
> seem rather limiting. I am having a tough time writing a TEI -> FO 
> stylesheet that FOP can use. I'm getting desperate, and I'm about to 
> mark up my tables as pre-formatted paragraph.

There's some code in the XSL list archives for determining
the number of columns for HTML and DocBooc (OASIS) tables,
TI tables shouldn't be much more difficult. As for the fixed
column width: this is indeed a problem, you might have to
guess or analyze the table content, using recursive templates.

J.Pietschmann

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