Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I made a table in Lyx (cvs version).
>
> It starts with:
>
> \begin_inset Tabular
> <lyxtabular version="3" rows="9" columns="3">
> <features>
> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" leftline="true" width="0">
> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" leftline="true" width="0">
> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" leftline="true"
> rightline="true" wid
> th="0">
> <row topline="true" bottomline="true">
> <cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true"
> usebox=
> "none">
> \begin_inset Text
>
>
> My problem is that HTML tables (by default) do not know how many columns
> or rows they may have.
>
> For example, I may have some:
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>
> data
> </td>
> <td>
> data
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>
> data
> </td>
> <td>
> data
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> Is there any way in lyx to have tables without defining how many rows or
> columns ahead of time?
No.
I'd agree that LyX's table format sucks, but the data is there in your html
file. Why not just extract it?
Attached is a python script that does it for you.
Regards,
Angus
#! /usr/bin/env python
import re, string, sys
def usage(prog_name):
print "Usage: %s <data file>\n" % prog_name
return 1
def error(message):
sys.stderr.write(message + '\n')
sys.exit(1)
def read_file(data_file):
try:
data = ""
for line in open(data_file, 'r').readlines():
data = data + ' ' + string.strip(line)
return data
except:
# Unable to open the file
error("Unable to open " + data_file)
def delimit_table(data, startpos):
table_start = string.find(data, "<table", startpos)
if table_start == -1:
return None, None
table_end = string.find(data, "</table>", table_start)
if table_end == -1:
return None, None
return table_start, table_end + len("</table>")
def delimit_row(data, startpos):
row_start = string.find(data, "<tr", startpos)
if row_start == -1:
return None, None
row_end = string.find(data, "</tr>", row_start)
if row_end == -1:
return None, None
return row_start, row_end + len("</tr>")
def delimit_col(data, startpos):
col_start = string.find(data, "<td", startpos)
if col_start == -1:
return None, None
col_end = string.find(data, "</td>", col_start)
if col_end == -1:
return None, None
return col_start, col_end + len("</td>")
def extract_rows_cols(data, start, end):
rows = 0
cols = 0
startrow = start
while (1):
startrow, endrow = delimit_row(data, startrow)
if startrow == None:
break
if endrow > end:
break
rows = rows + 1
startcol = startrow
cols_row = 0
while (1):
startcol, endcol = delimit_col(data, startcol)
if startcol == None:
break
if endcol > endrow:
break
cols_row = cols_row + 1
startcol = endcol
cols = max(cols, cols_row)
startrow = endrow
return rows, cols
def main(argv):
if len(argv) != 2:
return usage(argv[0])
data = read_file(argv[1])
start = 0
while (1):
start, end = delimit_table(data, start)
if start == None:
break
rows, cols = extract_rows_cols(data, start, end)
print data[start:end]
print "Table has ", rows, " rows and ", cols, "cols."
start = end
#print data
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv)
