For some reason position() did not work. But, thanks to you Matt, i finally
got things to work the way I wanted. For anybody else interested in the same
solution here is a segment of my XSL-
<xsl:template match="record">
<xsl:variable name="pos">
<xsl:number level="any" from="report"/>
</xsl:variable>
<fo:table>
<xsl:attribute name="background-color">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$pos mod 2 =
'0'">white</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>grey</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
<fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
<fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
thanks
-Srinivas
-----Original Message-----
From: Savino, Matt C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:01 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: setting a property with value of a variable
If you need to use a variable instead of an attribute, try this (don't
forget the '$'):
<fo:table background-color="{$bakColor}" />
Or if you need the attribute to be the result of something more complicated
like a choose statement, you can use <xsl:attribute>:
<fo:table>
<xsl:attribute name="background-color">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = '1'">white</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>grey</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
good luck,
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sampige, Srinivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: setting a property with value of a variable
>
>
> Okay ,found the answer
> <fo:table background-color="@bakColor">
>
> -Srinivas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sampige, Srinivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:35 PM
> To: FOPuser (E-mail)
> Subject: setting a property with value of a variable
>
>
> Hi
> I want a set of tables with alternating background colours.
> To do this I
> intend to set the background of the table with the value of a
> variable which
> will contain "white" or "grey". How do I do that?. Presently my .XSL
> contains this -
>
> <xsl:template match="record">
>
> <xsl:variable name="bakColor" select="yellow"/>
> <fo:table background-color='<xsl:value-of select="bakColor"/>\'>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
>
> <fo:table-body>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </fo:table-body>
> </fo:table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> But I am getting this error when I try to apply it to my XML file -
> --------------------------------------------------------------
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> -----------------
> C:\Apps\Apache Group\xalan-j_1_2_2\samples\SimpleTransform>java
> SimpleTransform
> file:///C:/Apps/Apache
> Group/xalan-j_1_2_2/samples/SimpleTransform/jeffReport.xsl;
> Line 71; Column
> 31
> XSL Error: Could not parse jeffReport.xsl document!
> XSL Error: SAX Exception
> Exception in thread "main"
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLProcessorException: The
> value of attribute "ba
> ckground-color" must not contain the '<' character.
> at
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.error(XSLTEngineImpl.java:1753)
> at
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.processStylesheet(XSLTEng
> ineImpl.java:8
> 13)
> at
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.process(XSLTEngineImpl.java:647)
> at SimpleTransform.main(SimpleTransform.java:81)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> -------------
>
> can sombody please help?
>
> thanks
> Srinivas
>
