Changing Frame default in Epic

[steve.cuzner]

Does anyone know of a way to change the default behavior of Epic so that
table do not have frames? The content model of the frame attribute has a
default value of #IMPLIED and our publishing system treats this as none,
but the edit view treats this as full.

Thanks,

Steve

[ebenton]

I don't know what version of Epic you have. We use the fairly-old 4.3.1
version. So there might be some functions to control this in later
versions that aren't in 4.3.1, or that I don't know about (always a
probability). In any case, assuming you use a CALS table and you have
control of your DTD, you can always add a %tbl.table.mdl; entity to your
DTD and change the ATTLIST in its content model from:

frame (top|bottom|topbot|all|sides|none) #IMPLIED

to: frame (top|bottom|topbot|all|sides|none) none

You can still use other values, but it should always default to "none".

Just make sure you declare this in your DTD before you declare your CALS
table.

[lhales]

Steve,

If you don't have control of your DTD/schema, then you might want to look
at the insert_tag_after() callback function, help 148. Have the function
run whenever you insert a table and do a modify attributes to set the
frame attribute to 'none'.

Lynn