Hi Camille, On 15 Nov 2013, at 10:24, Camille Bégnis <cami...@neodoc.biz> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am facing the infamous error: > "A table-cell is spanning more rows than available in its parent element." > When trying to convert DocBook to PDF using FOP. > It is a big document with many tables, and looking for the culprit is > tedious. > That would make it an illegal CALS table - according to the OASIS CALS specs. > Has anyone faced this issue, and found a way to detect the issue? > A "simple" XPath would do I guess? > I've created some schematron and done a blog post on CALS validity: http://code.google.com/p/cals-table-schematron/ http://blogs.deltaxml.com/2013/08/08/cals-table-validity/ (I do have an update I want to get some time to work on - I want to try out David Carlisle's suggestion to address the phases/progressive-validation issue - which is more of a schematron issue) Cheers, Nigel -- Nigel Whitaker, Software Architect, DeltaXML Ltd. "Experts in information change" nigel.whita...@deltaxml.com http://www.deltaxml.com +44 1684 869035 Registered in England: 02528681 Reg. Office: Monsell House, WR8 0QN, UK