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Old September 8th, 2000, 05:08 PM
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I currently have an XSL file set up with the code below:


<xsl:for-each select="/DESCRIPTIONS/">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when match=".[DESCRIPTION='Description']">
<tr bgcolor="#cccccc">
<td align="left">
<xsl:value-of select="DESCRIPTION"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:when>

<xsl:when match=".[DESCRIPTION='Description3']">
<tr bgcolor="#cccccc">
<td align="left">
<xsl:value-of select="DESCRIPTION"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:when>

<xsl therwise>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<xsl:value-of select="DESCRIPTION"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl therwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>


The current code works fine, and it's sole purpose is to change the background color of every other row.

My problem/question comes from the fact that my current solution is hardly a dynamic way to work with the data. As soon as there's a Description5 or Description7 etc... the row color changes will either have to be manually entered or the color alternating will just end up stopping.

Does anyone know of a way to make the rows continue to alternate colors? Is there a way to use while loops in XML/XSL that I am missing? I'm hoping this is just an easy answer I'm overlooking.

(Take it easy on me... I'm brand new at this)
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Old September 26th, 2000, 02:20 PM
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Solution: (Maybe it can help someone else out there looking for a similar solution)


Step 1)
Create a CSS file to store your colors.

color0="#FFFFFF"
color1="#EEEEEE"

Step 2)
Call to that CSS file from your XSL file.

<HTML>
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="color.css"/>
</head>

Step 3)
Where you call the table rows, use:


<tr>
<xsl:attribute name="class">
color
<xsl:eval>childNumber(this)% 2</xsl:eval>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<td align="left"><xsl:value-of select="description"/></td>
</tr>

It worked for me... hope it helps you as well.
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