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

[Micki K. <mic...@en...>]

I'm looking at OldStyleTable and although I would hardly qualify as a 
phpwiki-savvy programmer, I think we can create a 'caption' attribute 
for OldStyleTable 's by straightforward, minimal mods to the 
OldStyleTable plugin.

Not yet sure about NewStyleTables... one step at a time! Indeed, 
perhaps someone more savvy with the system can help enable those... 
do I hear rublings of the return of dairiki?  :)

Thanks,
Micki

At 10:15 PM -0500 12/3/03, Carsten Klapp wrote:
>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


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