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Re: Tables and XSL stylesheets
- To: davemak at iclick dot com, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables and XSL stylesheets
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot COM>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 1:35:56 PDT
> From: Dave Makower <davemak@iclick.com>
>
> I thought I'd learn how to do tables in DocBook XML, and that I'd
> start by running the example in the O'Reilly book through the XSL
> stylesheets. First, I added a couple of slashes to convert the empty
> tags from SGML to XML, and then I wrapped it inside of a <book>
> element and a <chapter> subelement, just to make sure it would behave
> okay. The result was surprising: the stylesheets complained that "No
> template matches entry" and _some_ of the tags were printed verbatim
> in red. But some of the entries worked. It seems like a stylesheet
> problem, or did I screw up the XML?
This is a bug in the XSL stylesheet file html/table.xsl.
It has templates for thead/row/entry and tbody/row/entry
but not tfoot/row/entry, which is where you are getting
the errors. When I copy the thead template to add
a tfoot template, your example works without errors.
bobs
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