XQuery/Converting HTML tables to XSL-FO tables

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 dispater 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