RE: [xsl] Accessing multiple values of an attribute

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I have xml similar to the following
> 
> 
> <Table stripes="blue red green purple">

Your first job is to tokenize this. Some processors (and EXSLT) have an
xx:tokenize() extension function that makes this easy; the only other
way is to use a recursive template (which isn't very difficult). Let?s
say you end up with a variable $colours containing a node-set in which
there are four elements whose string values are blue, red, etc,

> 	<Boxgrp>
> 		<Boxbod>
> 			<Boxrow>
> 				<Content> First Row</Content>
> 			</Boxrow>
> 			<Boxrow>
> 				<Content> Second Row</Content>
> 			</Boxrow>
...snip...
> 
> 
> The number of values existing in the stripes attribute is 
> variable (not always 4), and the rows in the table can also 
> be of different numbers (i.e. I could get one with 20 rows) 
> Using xsl, I must access the values of the 'stripes' 
> attribute and colour the rows of the box.....i.e. in the 
> above case, the box has 6 rows and 4 different colours so I 
> want my rows to be coloured in the following way: 
> Row 1: blue
> Row 2: red
> Row 3: green
> Row 4: purple
> Row 5: blue
> Row 6: red   etc
>  "         green
>  "         purple
>

This is now easy: 

<xsl:template match="Boxrow">
<p style="color: {$colours[position() mod count($colours) + 1]}">
  <xsl:value-of select="Content"/>
</p>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
> Question:
> First of all, how do I access the different values of the 
> stripes attribute (is there an easy way that I have 
> overlooked?)? I need to know 
> (a) how many of them there are (for my mod function)
> (b) what values they have. 
> 
> I was trying string-before and string-after but that could 
> get messy if I got alot of different colours.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
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