hello,
i have been trying to fix an alternate row coloring problem to no avail so i thought that it is time to ask for some help.

the problem is as follows: i want to be able to get the following result in html:
<tr bgcolor="white">
  <td>Konto</td>
  <td>#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="gray">
  <td>87598.46</td>
  <td>87598.80</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="white">
  <td>Depot</td>
  <td>#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="gray">
  <td>14572.46</td>
  <td>75918.80</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="white">
  <td>#160;</td>
  <td>#160</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="gray">
  <td>Total:36004.7</td>
  <td>#160</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="white">
  <td>#160;</td>
  <td>#160</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="gray">
  <td>Festgeld</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="white">
  <td>12345.46</td>
  <td>78945.80</td>
</tr>



i have been able to achieve the above layout, however due to the fact that there are three templates that
handle the rendering of each row. one to render the konto,depot and festgeld rows, one to render the
amount rows and one to render the total row, i have not been able to achieve a balanced alternate row coloring
template.

if anybody can assist that would be great. the xml and xsl snippet is below. thank you in advance

<table>
  <total_Konto_Depot>100000.00</total>
  <record>
    <asset_name>Konto</asset_name>
    <asset_children>
      <table>
        <record>
          <asset_name>87598.46</asset_name>
        </record>
        <record>
          <asset_name>87598.80</asset_name>
        </record>
      </table>
    </asset_children>
  </record>
  <record>
    <asset_name>Depot</asset_name>
    <asset_children>
      <table>
        <record>
          <asset_name>14572.46</asset_name>
        </record>
        <record>
          <asset_name>75918.80</asset_name>
        </record>
      </table>
    </asset_children>
  </record>
  <record>
    <asset_name>Festgeld</asset_name>
    <asset_children>
      <table>
        <record>
          <asset_name>12345.46</asset_name>
        </record>
        <record>
          <asset_name>78945.80</asset_name>
        </record>
      </table>
    </asset_children>
  </record>
</table>


<xsl:variable name="parent" select="count(/table/record)"/>
<xsl:variable name="children" select="count(/table/record/asset_children/table/record)"/>
<xsl:variable name="all-records" select="/table/record"/>
<xsl:variable name="number-of-all-records" select="count($all-records)"/>

<fo:table-body table-layout="fixed">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="/table/record">
  <xsl:with-param name="productType" select="asset_name"/>
 </xsl:apply-templates>
</fo:table-body>

<xsl:template match="table/record">
 <fo:table-row space-after.optimum="10pt" font-weight="normal" font-family="Helvetica" font-size="9pt">
  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="7" text-align="left">
   <fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-weight="bold" font-size="8pt">
    <xsl:value-of select="asset_name"/>
   </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
 </fo:table-row>
   <xsl:call-template name="assetOverview"/>
   <xsl:if test="position() = 2 or ($number-of-all-records = 1)">
     <xsl:call-template name="showBalanceInfo"/>
   </xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="assetOverview" match="asset_children/table/record">
 <xsl:for-each select="asset_children/table/record">
 <fo:table-row>
   <fo:table-cell text-align="left">
    <fo:block>
      <xsl:value-of select="asset_name"/>
    </fo:block>
   </fo:table-cell>
 </fo:table-row>
 </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="showBalanceInfo">
 <fo:table-row>
   <fo:table-cell text-align="left" number-columns-spanned="6" background="#e3e3e3">
     <fo:block space-after.optimum="10pt" space-before.optimum="10pt" font-family="Helvetica" font-weight="bold" font-size="8pt">
    total:
     </fo:block>
   </fo:table-cell>
    <fo:table-cell text-align="right" background="#e3e3e3">
     <fo:block space-after.optimum="10pt" space-before.optimum="10pt" font-family="Helvetica" font-weight="bold" font-size="8pt">
       <xsl:value-of select='format-number(/table/total_Konto_Depot, "#&apos;##0.00", "de-ch")'/>
     </fo:block>
    </fo:table-cell>
   </fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>

Hi,

First of all, you forget to wrap the snippet
by <xsl:template match="/"> and </xsl:template>.

I think the simplest solutuion is the following:

Since you build the table rows from different templates, it's probably impossible (or is possible with complicated tricks, I don't know) to put alternating-color rows. You can gather the rows into the variable, and then put the alternating-colors trivially:

Here is the necessary code-snippet which you have to change:

original(with the corrections I've just noted above):


change to
And also add this namespace declaration in the xsl:stylesheet element:
Note: I'm not familiar well with elements in the namespace "fo", so I've put fictive attribute "fo:some-attribute-for-background" for element "fo:table-row".

Regards,
Armen