Thanks so much Taco, that opens the door to a lot for me. It's a tricky learning curve. Just in case anyone else is copying code in future for CALS, there's a tiny tweak to the rows calculation, it should be (t.at.morerows or 0) + 1. I see a route to solving lots of other problems here too. Thanks again. Duncan On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 08:21, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 4 May 2022, at 22:10, Duncan Hothersall via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

Hi.

I'm processing an XML table and need to set a row span. Because we use a variant of the CALS table model, spans are defined by an attribute saying how many *additional* rows should be spanned, as opposed to how many *in total*. So to translate this into TABLE \bTD[nr=X] syntax I need to add 1.

I'm guessing this is very easily doable (in lua?) but I've tried various permutations and can't work it out. If anyone could give me a pointer that would be great.

(In reality I'm going to need to handle lots of other conversions of attribute values into \bTD[...] commands, so if there's a generalised way of doing that sort of thing, or even better if someone has already tackled CALS tables in this way, that would also be great!)

Not CALS, but I do a lot of HTML table processing. I find it all much easier on the lua side, because there the attributes are just in a table entry of the argument node t ( t.at ):

set up a lua function in the setups:

\startxmlsetups xml:demo:base \xmlsetsetup{#1}{*}{xml:demo:*} \xmlsetfunction {\xmldocument}{entry}{userdata.xmlfunctions.entry} \stopxmlsetups

and then add this lua code:

\startluacode userdata.xmlfunctions = {} function userdata.xmlfunctions.entry (t) local rows = (t.at.morerows or 1) + 1 context.bTD({nr=rows}) lxml.flush(t) context.eTD() end \stopluacode

All of the tex-side commands also exist in lua, in the lxml and/or xml table, e.g.:

direct output flushing: lxml.flush(t) lxml.all(t, ‘entry’)

filter for processing: for b in xml.collected(lxml.getid(t),'../row/entry') do … end

(those are the ones I use a lot, there are many more)

Best wishes, Taco

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