At 2011-09-15 09:14 -0500, Brian Popp wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm a little happy to hear that I didn't
waste a day on a trivial problem, but I'd gladly take a hit to my
pride in order to find a good solution. I actually started with the
negative margin technique, and it somewhat worked, but it was fragile.
For example, in order to get the icon to the left of the table, I had
to do something like:
<xsl:template
match="entry[position()=1 and
(descendant-or-self::limit/@origin='fdx' or
following-sibling::entry/descendant-or-self::limit/@origin='fdx')]">
Syntactically you can make this more concise as:
entry[position()=1 and
( . | following-sibling::entry)//limit/@origin = 'fdx' ]
... because in the predicate the current node is <entry> so the self
axis will not contain <limit> and "//" looks for descendants.
Basically, I'm putting a rule on the first cell of each row that looks
for the attribute being set in itself or any of its siblings and then
I push an icon out to the left of it. That works in almost every case.
The problem (aside from it being ugly) is that sometimes that first
cell spans multiple rows. If the third row within the span happens to
have the marker, the icon doesn't display next to the correct row and
instead draws next to the start of the span. D*mn creative writers and
their fancy straddles. :)
If your writers are not using numbered table columns, then you could
predictably put a ghost first cell on every row, of zero width, with
empty blocks in it, where the empty block has the float outside the
margin. You'd have to be careful about table borders if the writer
has control over the cell border interaction with the table border.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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