Re: Alternating table row colors with recursion

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> <xsl:template match = "Message">
>  <xsl:param name="x"/>
> <tr class="{$x}">
> <td>
> </td>
> </tr>
> <xsl:apply-templates select = "//Message[ParentMessageID = '$MID']">
>   <xsl:with-param name="x">
>     <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="$x='red'>yellow</xsl:when>
>        <xsl:otherwise>red</xsl:otherwise>
>      </xsl:chose>
>   </xsl:with-param>
> </xsl:apply-templates>

This was my thought at first, as well, but I don't think it would achieve
the results he wants. He would end up with each parent message's row
being one color and the rows for all of its children being the other
color. I think he wants the rows to alternate for each message.

   - Mike
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