> Are the counter and counter-increment  XSL elements not supported anymore.

They don't appear in the XSLT 1.0 recommendation. You should be able to
get the fuctionality with arithemetic expressions and/or xsl:number

> I'm trying to alternate background color for rows,
> and my original version of XSL code is formatting the background color
> based on where the node exists in the physical document (instead of where
> it exists once everything is sorted).

position() mod 2 = 0 

should work, shouldn't it?

David


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