XSLT Font Color Question

fenris ulf · April 23rd, 2010, 06:08 AM

Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm just starting out with XML and XSLT.

Here's the question.

I'm working on an XML transcription of a document that includes corrections written in the margins and using XSLT to display it in HTML. Here's the tag I was told to use.

Code:

<app><rdg type="corr" n="S1"> original reading </rdg><rdg type="main-corr"> correction </rdg></app>

I want to show the original reading and correction in a different color. Say, the original in blue and the correction in green.

I believe I understand how show all rdg tags in a certain color.

Code:

<xsl:template match="rdg">
	<font color="blue">
 	<xsl:apply-templates/></font>
</xsl:template>

What's throwing me is that both are rdg tags and they need to be distinguished based on the type=. I've been looking but can't figure that out. Help would be much appreciated!

samjudson · April 23rd, 2010, 06:44 AM

Simply specify another template for the ones you want to show in a different colour:

Code:

<xsl:template match="rdg[@type='main-corr']">
...green...
</xsl:template>

mhkay · April 23rd, 2010, 07:21 AM

First design your output. Do you want to control colour in your output using the HTML font element, or using CSS properties?

Once you know what output you want your XSLT to generate (in terms of XSLT elements and attributes) you can start asking about how to write the XSLT code to produce that output.

One approach would simply be to convert the "type" attributes into "class" attributes with the same value, and then to write your CSS to define the rendition of each class.

fenris ulf · April 23rd, 2010, 08:32 AM

@mhkay - That's a good point to keep in mind for the future. In this case, I wanted to use HTML.

@samjudson - Thanks so much, that did it! I figured it was something simple like that but I couldn't find the exact syntax. Like I said, I'm still learning