Re: Marking every second row

Hi Sorin,

> I got an very simple XSL-File wich produces following output from a very
> simple XML-File
>
> <table>
> <tr><td>aaa</td></tr>
> <tr><td>bbb</td></tr>      <-- X
> <tr><td>ccc</td></tr>
> <tr><td>ddd</td></tr>      <-- X
> <tr><td>eee</td></tr>
> <tr><td>fff</td> </tr>      <-- X
> </table>
>
> Now I want the background of the lines which are marked with an X in 
> another color.
>
> So how do I select every second row of my output?

Using this output as the input for a transformation, you can do
something like:

<xsl:template match="table">
  <table>
    <xsl:for-each select="tr">
      <tr>
        <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0">
          <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">blue</xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:if>
        <xsl:copy-of select="*" />
      </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

This loops over the tr elements, creates a copy and adds a bgcolor
attribute if the position of the tr element is even (which is tested
with position() mod 2 = 0).

You could probably do something similar when you're actually creating
this table in your stylesheet, but without seeing the input to that
transformation I can't be certain.
  
Cheers,

Jeni

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