apologies (was: Re: setting a property with value of a variable)

[jim hopp <ji...@netyourwork.com>]

Sorry about that - I must pay more attention when reading and replying 
to mail in multiple mail readers simultaneously!

-Jim

jim hopp wrote:

> sweet...looks like a Buell Blast.
>
> Have fun in Kauai!
>
> Savino, Matt C wrote:
>
>> 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:srinivas.sampige@boeing.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:41 PM
>>> To: 'fop-user@xml.apache.org'
>>> 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:srinivas.sampige@boeing.com]
>>> 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 -
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --------------
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --------------
>>> -----------------
>>> 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
>>>
>