RE: Setting background colour according to contents of

Use

<xsl:attribute name="background-color">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="BREAK_3" mode="get-colour"/>
</xsl:attribute>

then

<xsl:template match="* mode="get-colour">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="FIELD_134='Y' or ...>
etc.
</xsl:template>

In other words, but the conditional code in the piece that generates the
attribute that varies, not in the piece that generates its containing
element.

Michael Kay


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean & Helen [mailto:scarlson65@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 September 2004 06:29
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Setting background colour according to contents of node
> 
> Hi all,
> I was trying to set a background colour by setting a variable 
> after checking
> the contents of a node. I realized that this would not work 
> unless I used
> LOTS of variables since the value of a variable cannot be 
> updated once set.
> Does anyone have an easier way to set a colour based on data? 
> The only other
> way I can think of is to use an <xsl:choose> but then I have 
> to repeat my
> whole table cell code twice (which really adds up for large reports).
> 
> This is what I currently have (which is pretty awful):
> 
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="BREAK_3/FIELD_134[1]=Y or BREAK_3/FIELD_135[1]='F'">
>      <fo:table-cell background-color="#9DE1DF"> .... contents 
> of the cell
> .... </fo:table-cell>
> </xsl:when>
> 
> <xsl:otherwise>
>      <fo:table-cell background-color="white">...exactly the 
> same code for
> the contents...</fo:table-cell>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> 
> TIA for listening to my silly question,
> Helen.