Has anyone developed code (preferably XSLT 1.0) that can identify
the physical output column of a cell in the XHTML table model?
I.e., given data like so
<table>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">content</td>
<td>content</td>
<td>content</td>
<td>content</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>content</td>
<td>content</td>
<td>content</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">content</td>
<td>content</td>
</tr>
</table>
which produces a table looking something like
x x x x
. x x x
x . . x
be able to calculate that table/tr[2]/td[1] is in column 2 and
table/tr[3]/td[2] is in column 4, etc.?
It's not a simple algorithm to figure out because it must take into
account for a given cell all combinations of @colspan and @rowspan in
preceding cells that interact to affect the position of the current
cell.
I can see my way to an XSLT 2.0 solution that would work by creating
pseudo-array variable created via a recursive function (basically an XML
version of the "x . x" picture), but that's not an option in XSLT 1.0.
Ideally I need something that will work with current Web browser XSLT
parsers. (The underlying data I'm working with is actually TEI tables,
but the row/column span semantics are identical to XHTML.)
DS
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Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press
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