Re: [docbook] Recommended way to markup tables with internal footnotes?...

Hi,
If you want footnotes that are entered inside a table to appear at the page 
bottom instead of the bottom of the table, you could do it with a 
stylesheet customization instead of changing your markup.  There really is 
no replacement for footnote if you want bottom-of-page footnotes.

But the customization to get this requires modifying several templates.  In 
fo/footnote.xsl, you will have to find the places where a table ancestor is 
checked, and change the behavior to use normal footnote processing.  It 
would require modifying at least there templates:

<xsl:template match="footnote">

<xsl:template match="footnote" mode="footnote.number">

<xsl:template name="table.footnote.block"> (make this template empty)


Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Hungerford" <>
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:03 PM
Subject: [docbook] Recommended way to markup tables with internal 
footnotes?...


> Hi,
>
> My project is using the HTML table model with DocBook
> V5.0 to digitize a bunch of documents that feature
> large and sometimes complex tables.
>
> Some of these tables have "internal" footnotes where
> a table column heading or a table cell will be have
> a footnote reference "(a)", "(b)" etc.  These footnotes
> are then printed in full at the end of the table, but
> not at the foot of the page as with regular footnotes.
>
> Can anyone suggest a semantically consistent way to
> handle these footnotes and keep them attached the
> correct table?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stu
>
> -- 
>
> Stuart Hungerford
> ANUSF Data Intensive Projects
>
>
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