RE: [xsl] Another Alternate table-row background color question - Using filters

["Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> stylesheet will extract only some information (filter) from the XML and
> create a table. I want the rows in this table to have alternate background
> color. Because of the filter condition in the XSL, I cannot use the
> position() to check for odd/even rows. I need to (essentially) check the
> row number inserted into the HTML <TABLE>.

Here're 2 XSLT 1.0 options: split the transform into 2 stylesheets--the 
first picks out only the rows you want, and the second formats them into 
HTML, this time using position() to determine even/odd rows.  Alternatively 
you could do this in 1 stylesheet if you're willingto use an extension 
function such as node-set().  The idea here is to create a variable 
containing the rows you want, then to iterate rows inthis variable, this 
time using position().  Something like so:

<xsl:variable name="r">
   <xsl:copy-of select="Codes/Code[Name = 30 ... etc]"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:for-each select="node-set($r)">
   //.. do something with .
</xsl:for-each>

node-set comes into play because what's held in $r is a "result tree 
fragment", which needs to be converted to a "nodeset" before it may be 
iterated over, etc.

I gather that XSLT 2.0 has features that obviate this step.

Regards,

--A

> <Codes>
>     <Code>
>         <Name>10</Name>
>         <Description>Decription 10</Description>
>     </Code>
>     <Code>
>         <Name>20</Name>
>         <Description> Description 20</Description>
>     </Code>
>     <Code>
>         <Name>30</Name>
>         <Description>description 30</Description>
>     </Code>
>     <Code>
>         <Name>40</Name>
>         <Description> Description 40</Description>
>     </Code>
> </Codes>
>
> And here is my stylesheet (it extracts only codes 30, 50 & 60). The output
> should contain the first and third rows in one bg color and the second row
> in a different color. I tried the position() in this XSL, but it does not
> work...

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