Re: alternating tags in a list?

[Keith Visco <kvisco@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Paul...this should be supported. We use XSL on a number of
projects...and luckily we have access to ECMAScript to do modulus for
alternating tags. 

--Keith


Paul_Tihansky@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> --- Paul Prescod wrote: --->
> > As James Clark has pointed out on several occasions, if you want to turn
> > every other row in a table blue, this is *trivial* in DOM code. Why mess
> > up the nice declarative properties of the XSL stylesheet when the feature
> > you want is already available and well specified? Is it worth reducing
> the
> > number of XSL implementations?
> 
> If its so *trivial* why shouldn't XSL be able to handle alternating tags?
> Its not so trivial to create DOM code for a non-DOM programmer.  You even
> cited an example of your own.
> 
> > Nevertheless, I can say this about XSL: I've deployed it in two
> > situations. The first was a markup user who doesn't know how to program.
> 
> If they wanted to do alternating tags, what would you have told them to do?
> I can do a lot with an XSL transformation, so why should I have to abandon
> XSL altogether for the sake of a trivial function.  I think not including
> these simple functions or some way of embedding these function is going to
> discourage a lot of people from using XSL.
> 
> Paul T.
> 
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