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XQuery/Converting HTML tables to XSL-FO tables
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Motivation
You have a collection of HTML tables that you want to convert to PDF.
Method
We will use an XQuery typeswitch transformation that will convert the key table elements (table,thead,tr,th,db,tbody) to the corresponding XSL-FO elements.
Sample Main Dispatcher
We will create an XQuery module with the following functions:
a main dispatersimilar to disputer April 2024 function for starting the transform
a single function for each table element
a function to process the class attributes for each element
To transform the table the following will be used:
let $fo-table := html-2-fo:main($html-table);
The main function of the