Re: [xsl] Alternating Odd and Even with a twist

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

Instead of

<xsl:for-each select="*[substring(name(),1,4)='item']">

you can use then

<xsl:for-each select="*">

Regards,

Joerg


Kuhns Matt wrote:
> Kuhns Matt wrote:
>
> > I want to alternate rows between a odd and even
>
> class
>
> > in my CSS. The twist is that If there is no
> > information in the tag I don't want to print and I
> > want to maintain my odd and even structure. The html
> > would look like this
> > <class="rowodd">Hi</class>
> > <class="roweven">How are you?</class>
> > <class="rowodd">Bye</class>
> > xml:
> > <item1>Hi</item1>
> > <item2>How are you?</item2>
> > <item3>Bye</item3>
> > but say there was no information where How are you?
> > I want it to go:
> > <class="rowodd">Hi</class>
> > <class="roweven">Bye</class>
> > xml:
> > <item1>Hi</item1>
> > <item3>Bye</item3>
> > I can get the text not to print, but how do I assign
> > the classes? 
>
>
> I hope your elements are *not* named item1, item2,
> item3...
> But if you really want:
>   <xsl:for-each
> select="*[substring(name(),1,4)='item']">
>     <class>
>       <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 0">
>            <xsl:attribute
> name="name">even</xsl:attribute>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:otherwise>
>            <xsl:attribute
> name="name">odd</xsl:attribute>
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>       </xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </class>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> (Beware: untested)
>
> I'm not sure what the "twist" is, it's a standard
> technique.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
> I'm sorry my description was a little misleading:
> <System>
> <Network>Hi</Network>
> <Client>How are you?</Client>
> <Server>Bye</Server>
> <System>
> So you couldn't parse the string and get the string
> "item"

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