alternate row colurs

[plork123]

dept boss
----------------------------------
accounts Marge Simpson
finance AN Other
marketing Marge Simpson
IT Someone else


When I display the data on the page, it's displayed like this

boss dept
----------------------------------
Marge Simpson accounts
marketing
finance AN Other
IT Someone else


Each row has to have alternate colours, so like this

boss dept
----------------------------------
Marge Simpson accounts dark background colour
marketing dark background colour
finance AN Other light background colour
IT Someone else dark background colour


Because I have 2 rows for Marge Simpson, making the rows alternate colurs isn't working. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can do this

Thanks in advance




At the moment I'm doing other pages like this, which works fine (FYI i'm also using jaascript)

<xsl:variable name=\"rowColour\">
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test=\"position() mod 2 = 0\">
			dark background colour
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
			light background colour
		</xsl:otherwise>
	</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

 

[simonchristieis]

try this:

<xsl:variable name='rowColour'>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test='position() mod 2 = 0'>
            <xsl:value-if select='dark background colour'/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-if select='light background colour'/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

and use the variable to create your style sheet


hth

simon

 

[simonchristieis]

doh !!!

<xsl:value-of select='dark background colour'/>