Re: alternating tags in a list?

[Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul_Tihansky@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > 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 would have told them to learn Javascript and do it with Javascript.

What would I have told them with the old XSL, with embedded scripting?
"Learn Javascript. Do it with Javascript."

> 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'm not asking you to abandon XSL. I'm asking you to use XSL for what it
is good for and then write ten lines of JavaScript to fix up the result.
Let's see, it takes one line of DOM code to get a list of all tables in
the document. One line to get a list of all rows in a table. One line to
skip every other row. Then one line to add the shading attribute. That's
four lines. I would write them out but I can't bring myself to type
GetElementsBy********. Argh.

 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
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