NOT a "How Do I". Query re conditionaling table columns

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Lin...

I think it has to do with the ability to have spanned cells. But also I 
don't think that you can conditionalize a cell object. You can 
conditionalize the content within a cell, but you can't just "remove" 
(hide) a cell in a table. You'd have a hole.

Yes, theoretically, if you didn't have spanned cells, you could 
hide/show the cells that make up a column, but since there is no 
"column" object, there's no place to assign that data. You can 
conditionalize rows, but cells are a bit of a different beast.

It would be possible to make a plugin or script that would assign a 
condition to the content of all cells in a column, but you'd have to 
actually delete the cells that make up that column to "hide" it.

The closest thing to a column object that you could assign a property to 
for this purpose would be the "colspec" element in DITA. But in looking, 
that doesn't allow the outputclass attribute (or other likely 
attributes) where you'd assign a value that you could check for during 
some publishing process to hide/delete that column.

If I were to want to do this, I'd probably set a marker in the column 
header to indicate a hide/show property, then set up some sort of 
process during publishing.

Yeah .. might be a nice feature, but it's fraught with issues.

...scott

On 2/2/15 7:23 AM, Lin Sims wrote:
> Playing with Frame12's (yes, we FINALLY got to upgrade) new 
> conditional tag interface, and something occurred to me that has 
> before but I never got around to asking.
>
> WHY can't Frame apply conditional tags to table columns? It's not a 
> feature I particularly need (although there's been a time or two it 
> would have come in right handy), but I've been curious about this for 
> a while. I'm guessing it has something to do with the original 
> internal structure, so I'm hoping those who have been long time users 
> might have some insight.
>
> I don't need an answer fast. :) Technically, I don't need an answer at 
> all, but I'm still curious.
>
> -- 
> Lin Sims
>
>

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