xsl question for new user

MHTL · May 11th, 2008, 04:44 PM

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>
<parent>
    <child col1="value1" col2="value2" col3="value3" .. col10="value10" />
    <child col1="valueA" col2="valueB" col3="valueC" .. col10="valueJ" />
...
        <child col1="value" ...col10="value" />
</parent>

How to get Values to display in rows, colums in alternate colors using xsl stylesheet. Any pointers?
<tr class="normal" bgcolor="green">
    <td class="normal">value1</td>
    <td class="normal">value2</td>
    <td class="normal">value3</td>
...
    <td class="normal">value10</td>
</tr>
<tr class="normal">
    <td class="normal">valueA</td>
    <td class="normal">valueB</td>
    <td class="normal">valueC</td>
...
    <td class="normal">valueJ</td>
</tr>
<tr class="normal" bgcolor="green">
    <td class="normal">value</td>
    ...
    <td class="normal">value</td>
</tr>
Thanks.

mhkay · May 11th, 2008, 04:54 PM

Use

<xsl:template match="child">
  <tr>
    <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
      <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">green</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:if>
    <td class="normal"><xsl:value-of select="@col1"/></td>
    etc

(although I would have used a different CSS class, but that's a CSS question not an XSLT question).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

MHTL · May 12th, 2008, 12:19 PM

Currently stylesheet used:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:n="http://www.w3.org">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<table>
...

<xsl:apply-templates select="//n:child" />
</table>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="child">

  <tr>
    <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
      <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">green</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:if>
    <td class="normal"><xsl:value-of select="@col1"/></td>
  <tr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm not seeing anything like "value1", "value", etc on IE 7.0 browser

old stylesheet used:
If xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl", the values are properly display (I'm not using test="position() mod 2 = 1" because it does not work with TR/WD-xsl
Please advise. Thanks.

mhkay · May 12th, 2008, 02:55 PM

Where does the prefix n and the namespace http://www.w3.org come from? I don't see these in your source document. If the element is in a namespace then the match should be match="n:child"; if it isn't in a namespace then the apply-templates should have select="//child".

Also, don't rely on the appearance of the HTML when displayed in a browser. Always look at the "source" HTML. In fact, a browser is the worst possible environment for developing and debugging XSLT.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

MHTL · May 13th, 2008, 10:01 PM

Thank you Michael.
Works now with select="//child"