[ODFTOOLKIT-189] Provide the ability to create a table with 0 rows and 0 columns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: odfdom-0.8.7
• Component/s: java
• Environment: Operating System: Linux; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 302
• Assignee: Ying Chun Guo
• Reporter: datanucleus
• Created: 27/Feb/11 09:03
• Updated: 19/Dec/12 06:07

Description

I could do this in 0.6, and can't now.
Why is it imposed on a user of ODFDOM that they have to have present some columns and rows ? Why 5 and 2 ?
Why can't I just have an empty table ?
I try deleting and can't get to 0.

The end-user may be wanting to add their own columns and rows and if you impose on them that they have to start with some arbitrary number then they have to adjust their code to allow for your dummy rows/columns. This is user-unfriendly.

How ODFDOM handles this situation internally is for it to decide but from the users perspective having it as empty is reasonable IMHO.