Re: rookie questions - Try 2

["xsl questions" <xslquestions@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may not win any awards for elegance but it works:

I had a for-each loop that printed
<filter name> <filter selection>
where name was simply text and selection could be a drop-down or free form 
text entry.  I wanted to switch to
<filter name> <filter selection> <filter name> <filter selection>

What I did was:
<xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping = "yes" >&lt;TR&gt;</xsl:text>
   <code to print filter name and selection>

and then
<xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0">
   <code to print filter name and selection>
   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping = "yes" >&lt;/TR&gt;</xsl:text>

I could not simply print the <TR> or </TR> because then the <TR> would come 
in one if statement and the </TR> in the other if statement and this 
apparently is illegal.  More elegant solutions are always appreciated, but 
this works.

Also - if there are any other new-users browsing this list don't let any 
&nbsp tags slip in to your code or you will have funky browser-specific 
formatting issues.

> From: "Noah Nordrum" <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: rookie questions - Try 2
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:54:48 -0400
>
> This is a similar problem, but not really. Having a "tiled" background of a 
> 2
> column table is easy:
>
>     <tr>
>       <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0">
>         <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">red</xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:if>
>         <td>search criteria</td><td>input field</td>
>     </tr>
>
> going like this:
> <search criteria>  <input field>  <search criteria>  <input field>
> <search criteria>  <input field>  <search criteria>  <input field>
> <search criteria>  <input field>  <search criteria>  <input field>
> is much harder.
>
> I posted a similar request for this pattern last week, but no responses yet 
> :(
> I know it is somewhere in the archives, but I can't seem to find it, and
> unfortunately I had only bookmarked the list-archive index, and not the 
> actual
> item. oops ;)
>
> If if find out, I'll forward the answer on to you.
>
> Noah

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