Re: alternating tags in a list?

This isn't a declaritive model issue.

You can declare it any which way you think is a good way. The current XSL
language spec doesn't have this facility, but that by no means says that it
can't. All you are trying to declare in the alternate tag issue is if
(row.index() % 2 == 1), the can be structure to fit with the present
pattern matching syntax any way the W3C see fit....::shrug::...
<xsl:template match="index(this)$mod$2=1">... if we favour the built in
methods with evaluations approach, otherwise pick some characters off your
keyboard to express this.

Cheers
     Guy.





xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/16/98 01:57:49 AM

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cc:    (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID)
Subject:  Re: alternating tags in a list?




Paul Prescod wrote
>As James Clark has pointed out on several occasions, if you want to turn
>every other row in a table blue, this is *trivial* in DOM code.
How do you know that you want to turn every other row blue?
ie: who writes the DOM code and where is it executed?
Isn't this just shifting a responsibility around, but admitting that the
declarative model can't supply this by itself?
How do I tell a browser that every 2nd line should be blue?
I'd prefer to see the declarative language capable of defining this kind of
event.
Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western
Australia
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