Setting table format on XML import

["Fredrik Nyman" <fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I'm new to the list as well as to structured FrameMaker. 

I've got a bunch of text in XML format that I want to import into 
FrameMaker, then apply formatting on it. I'm opening the XML file, 
importing element definitions from the EDD (xdocbook) and have got most 
of the things working the way I want it. I've successfully made 
modifications to the EDD for certain containers.

But I've ran the head into the wall now regarding tables. I have a table 
format defined in the document template. The format is known as 
table_col.

I want FrameMaker to use that table format when importing a table such as
    <table>
         <title>This is the table title</title>
      <tgroup cols="2">
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>Heading left</entry>
            <entry>Heading right</entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>First row left</entry>
            <entry>First row right</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Second row left</entry>
            <entry>Second row right</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>

I've managed so far modifying the Title, TBody and THead elements to get 
the proper paragraph formatting for the content of the cells and the 
table title. But I can't seem to get FrameMaker to change the default 
table format.

I assumed this should be done in the TGroup definition and have added 

InitialTableFormat
  AllContextsRule
     TableFormat table_col

But FrameMaker does not trigger on this (or ignores it) as the table 
format used is my custom table in the document template.

Please help!

-- 
Fredrik Nyman
PacketFront Sweden AB
http://www.packetfront.com/


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