Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Adding '<caption>' tags to tables from wiki

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 10:18  am, Micki Kaufman wrote:

> Hi phpwiki folks.
>
> After basing our documentation project (covering 1000s of pages) on  
> the wiki, we're seeing amazing results. I'm available to discuss,  
> etc., should anyone want to know more about how we use this awesome  
> wiki.
>
> One thing I've been looking for is a way to associate a 'title' or  
> 'caption' with a table (either OldStyle or NewStyle), so that the  
> title obeys the proper 'keep-with', etc., when the title is printed in  
> our pdf workflow.
>
> I'd like a modification that allows:
> - one extra parameter within the table plugin called 'caption', like
>
>    <?plugin OldStyleTable caption="Caption Text"
>
> - which renders its contents as
>    ...<table>
>     '<caption>Caption Text</caption>'
>    <tr>...
>  at the beginning of the table, before the first <tr> tag.
>
> This is valid html, and it will allow seriously cool functionality in  
> our printed workflow - titles will remain with tables, automatically  
> generate 'list of tables' at the top of each doc, etc. Real  
> MSWord-kiiling stuff.
>
> Anyone have any ideas, or willing to help? This will be the first  
> hardcore mod of our system that we'd have to carry forward, and  
> logically I'd much prefer for this useful if obscure mod to be in the  
> core code if folks find value to it.
>
> If no one would like to work on it, I'll begin the process of figuring  
> it out and will offer it back to the code base once we're done.
>
> Thanks to all for making phpwiki continue to rock.
>
> Micki


Hi Micki,

User-definable table captions sound like an awesome feature, I'm all  
for it!

I'm not sure that this is something I can write, so if you or anyone  
else figures out how to do it (add table captions and/or table summary  
attribute) send me a patch and I'll gladly check it into the PhpWiki  
CVS for everyone to have.

Table captions are already defined in lib/HtmlElement.php, so I hope it  
isn't too hard to add something to InlineParser or whatever else needs  
to be modified.

Carsten

Ref.:  
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/tables.html#h- 
11.2.2