xsl attributes

[mplbm]

If this piece of code sets the bgcolor to the value of @StatusColor,

<xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">
<xsl:value-of select="@StatusColor" />
</xsl:attribute>

why doesn't replacing 'bgcolor' with 'color' or 'forecolor' set the forecolor to the value of @StatusColor?

 

[Rieekan]

That looks more like a question for the folks over in forum-426 (XML forum).

- George

 

[Foamcow]

Just a guess, but does the actual XML element have an attribute for "color" or "forecolor"?

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[mplbm]

The element is a <td>, which doesn't have an attribute for color or forecolor.

 

[k5tm]

Mike,

I imagine that the attribute was being created, but was being ignored by your rendering engine. (It is possible, but not probable, that an overzealous XSLT processor would refuse to create attributes it 'knows' are bad in html output mode.) You would have to look at the source (i.e. the serialized output of the translation) to see.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[Foamcow]

Furthering my guess...

from memory (and I've not used this style of HTML for some time).
There is a valid attribute "bgcolor" for a table cell element but there isn't a valid attribute "color" nor "forecolor".

So you can assign the bgcolor attribute a value because it exists within the html spec.
You cannot set the "color" or "forecolor" attribute because neither of those attributes exist within the html spec for a <td> tag.

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