If you can't calculate whether the row is odd or even based on its position
in the input, try writing the result to an RTF and then doing a second
transformation (using the node-set() extension). In the second phase you can
use position() mod 2 in the normal way.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Arni J
> Rognvaldsson
> Sent: 16 January 2001 21:14
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Every other row with a different twist
>
>
> I'm sorry if this has already been discussed to death, I
> tried searching
> the list, but found nothing close enough.
> Like a lot of other people I'm trying to color every other table row.
> Normally I would do this with position() mod 2, but in this
> case that's
> not practical.
>
> My xml can be represented like this:
>
> <person>
>     <address>
>        <city/>
>        <tel/>
>     </address>
>     <employer>
>        <name/>
>        <tel/>
>     </employer>
> </person>
>
> my stylesheet look like this:
>
> <xsl:template match="person">
>     <table>
>
>        <xsl:if test="boolean(address/name)">
>           <tr>
>              <td>Person's home city:</td>
>              <td><xsl:value-of select="address/name"/></td>
>           </tr>
>        </xsl:if>
>
>        <xsl:if test="boolean(employer/name)">
>           <tr>
>              <td>Person's employer:</td>
>              <td><xsl:value-of select="employer/name"/></td>
>           </tr>
>        </xsl:if>
>
>        <xsl:if test="boolean(employer/tel)">
>           <tr>
>              <td>Employer's telephone number:</td>
>              <td><xsl:value-of select="employer/tel"/></td>
>           </tr>
>        </xsl:if>
>
>     </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Notice that the number of rows in the output will vary
> depending on the
> existence of the nodes in the input xml. Also note that I'm not using
> all the elements in the input. Lastly, the labels in the
> first td in each
> block are completely arbitrary.
>
> Now, of course the client would like to color every other
> row. I'm stumped,
> can't figure out a way to do it. Any help would be very much
> appreciated, I
> don't mind cheating, rewriting the above in any way or
> whatever, as long as
> it does not require changes to the html data (this is only
> one page, there are
> more).
> Of course, this might be impossible :-(
> I'm running XalanJ version 1.2.2 under Apache JServ.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arni
>
>
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