Table editor

I have a table model which contains optional title (tt), header (th) and footer (tf) elements, with a mandatory body (tb). Headers, bodies and footers contain one or more rows (tr), and rows (naturally) contain one or more cells (td).
I can use the "insert table" button off the main menu to insert a basic table, and then change body rows to header rows in the document view, but what I would like to do is modify the options provided by the "insert table" button. Check boxes for header row and totals row, and header column and totals columns, are inappropriate; I'd rather select how many header rows, how many body rows, how many footer rows, and so on.
What is the correct mechanism that will allow me to do that, please?

Thanks for answering.

Hmm. Does your comment about implementation mean that this feature is already a planned enhancement? If not, do you have an example somewhere that I could perhaps use as a starting point for this exercise?

Well: the built-in widget offers me header/totals row and header/totals column checkboxes, plus a table dimension picker graphic. In most cases I expect users to select a header row and a dimension, and pass up the other options.

But: if I check the "header row" option and click in the graphic to select a 2x2 table, the widget shows me 1 header row and 1 body row, but this is not what is inserted in the document. The new table contains a tb (body) with 2 rows (tr) of 2 cells (td) each. But Xopus knows that my header rows really belong in a th element, because if I click on "table" in the structure on the status line at the bottom of the document window, I am offered "insert table header", and that inserts a table header of 1 row with the right number of table cells. I understand how to do this, but it's not very intuitive.

So: what would be really useful would be if the built-in table inserter could recognise that "header row" in the widget corresponds to my th node (which has been assigned the "tableheader" and "tablerowcontainer" roles in xopus-config.xml). If it could do a similar job with the totals // tf node (tablefooter and tablerowcontainer) that would be the icing on the cake.

Is this realistic?

Sounds good :-)

I have the following nodes defined in my xopus-config.xml (this is just the bit relevant to tables):

<x:node match="table"><x:role>table</x:role></x:node>
-- remainder abbreviated --
match=tt role=tablecaption
match=th role=tableheader, tablerowcontainer
match=tb role=tablebody, tablerowcontainer
match=tf role=tablefooter, tablerowcontainer
match=tr role=tablerow. tablecellcontainer
match=td role=tablecell, tableheadercell
match=@rowspan role=cellrowspan
match=@colspan role=cellcolspan

Cheers
T

I have probem with table header. When table is created all rows are created in thead element
<thead>
<tr><th/></tr>
<tr><td/></tr>
<tr><td/></tr>
</thead>
<tbody/>
How I can force xmetal to create rows with td in tbody element ?