Yes, you are right, I have dowgraded to XXE 4.2 and
everything is right. I will keep in this version in the meantime.
Is version 4.2 still supported ?

Thank you

Hussein Shafie escribi?:
> Alberto Gonz?lez T?llez wrote:
>   
>> When generating HTML from Docbook in XXE 4.4
>> table columns are not correctly dimensioned
>> followin atribute colwith of colspec, when
>> colwith is specified in milimeters (mm).
>>
>> In HTML it appears something like:
>>
>> <colgroup><col width="28mm"><col with="84mm"></colgroup>
>>
>>     
>
> This is incorrect HTML/XHTML. the value of attribute width is a
> MultiLength, that is, pixels, percents or "*" units.
>
> Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4.2
>
>
>
>
>   
>> but navigators do not size the two columns
>> (in this example) to 28mm and 84mm. Neither
>> something proportional, it seems that columns
>> take a random size.
>>
>> pt units work fine, but I am using mm since
>> quite a long time...
>>
>>     
>
> This should work fine out of the box because:
>
> [1] XXE uses Saxon as its XSLT processor.
> [2] XXE is bundled with docbook-xsl-saxon.jar, which contains the Saxon
> extension called "com.nwalsh.saxon.Table.adjustColumnWidths".
> [3] XXE explicitly sets variable "use.extensions" to 1
> [4] By default, the value of tablecolumns.extension is 1.
>
> Reference: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ColumnWidths.html
>
> Therefore, I would say that your problem is caused by a bug in the
> DocBook XSLT stylesheets.
>
>
>   
>> It seems that it is something related to
>> the CSS stylesheet used in the web site
>> where I publish the HTML output. Then I
>> guess that the solution is to customize
>> XSLT to convert mm to pt  :-( 
>>
>> Am I right?
>>     
>
> Don't think so. Not sure.
>
> I would recommend to create a simple, standalone, example that allows to
> reproduce the problem and to report this as a bug to
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=21935&atid=373747
>
> I'm really sorry but we currently don't have the time to do this
> ourselves. We are overloaded with work.
>
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