Re: [docbook-apps] html table, create wrapper div with class

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Put multiple @class on the table?

HTH

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 14:28, Tim Arnold <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm converting DocBook 5 to html (docbook-xsl-1.79.2) with a customization layer.
> I now need to wrap my table elements inside a div with a particular class (say 'tabular-wrapper' for example).
> My tables in the DocBook XML source are HTML tables.
>
> Currently the tables are rendered by the stylesheet as:
>     <div id="the_id" class="">
>         <div class="-contents">
>           <table class="tabular"> ... </table>
>         </div>
>     </div>
>
> I want the tables to look like this:
>     <div id="the_id" class="tabular-wrapper">
>         <div class="-contents">
>           <table class="tabular"> ... </table>
>         </div>
>      </div>
>
> or perhaps
>     <div id="the_id" class="">
>         <div class="-contents tabular-wrapper">
>           <table class="tabular"> ... </table>
>         </div>
>      </div>
>
> It appears that the $class variable the formal.xsl stylesheet (htmlTable.with.caption template) refers to is blank.
> <div class="{$class}">
>
> As a last resort, I can copy the template into my customization layer with appropriate edits.
>
> My question is whether that is the best I can do?
> Or is there a way to populate the $class variable just for tables?
>
> thanks for any ideas!
> --Tim



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