Re: [xsl] Background color in table

Subject: Re: [xsl] Background color in table
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:49:30 -0400
At 2003-05-27 14:32 +0200, Andreas Byström wrote:
I'm about to make web page that should have a table of names in it. I would
like to have different background color on each other ro in the table,
example:
black
white
black
white...

I have trouble getting this to work with the XSL. This is an example on the
xml I have to work with
<pack>
  <service>
    <name>name1</name>
  </service>
  <service>
    <name>name2</name>
  </service>
</pack>
<pack>
  <service>
    <name>name3</name>
  </service>
  <service>
    <name>name4</name>
  </service>
</pack>

I want to list all services names. I managed to solve it when I only had one
<pack> tag, but now I can have several pack-tags. Does someone know how to
get a nice table from this data?

At the point where you are at the parent element of <pack> the pseudo-code would be the following:


For each in "pack/service": #this XPath addr selects all service grandchildren
<tr>
when position() mod 2 = 0
Add black background attribute
otherwise
Add white background attribute
Add content of <tr> element
</tr>


Note that in the above all service grandchildren are treated as a single set, so the pack boundaries do not interfere with the positioning of the members of the set relative to each other.

Also ensure that you add any attributes to a result element *before* you add any content to the row.

I hope this helps.

....................... Ken

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