True...I just got finished setting up variables to handle
changes to colors and it must have been 'on my mind' too much.
Thanks for the catch, 

Sara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:26 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  comparing the valie of an attribute..
> 
> 
> Sara Mitchell wrote:
> > To use xsl:choose, you can do something like this:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="event">
> > <!-- set variable based on the value of type attribute -->
> > <xsl:variable name="colortype">
> > <xsl:choose>
> > <xsl:when test="@type='error'">#990000</xsl:when>
> > <xsl:otherwise>#dddddd</xsl:otherwise>
> > </xsl:choose>
> > </xsl:variable>
> > <td>
> > <!-- assign background color using variable -->
> > <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor"><xsl:value-of select="$colortype"/>
> > </xsl:attribute> 
> >  ...what ever your cell content should be here...
> > </td>
> > </xsl:template>
> 
> There's no particular need to use a variable here unless you reuse the
> colour elsewhere. [snipped]

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