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Re: Changing Attributes Based on Ancestry
- From: Robert Koberg <rob at koberg dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 20:09:29 -0800
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Changing Attributes Based on Ancestry
- References: <NEBBJNPOALAFMPGBOCMBCEJECHAA.rico@jhu.edu>
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Hi,
you want to something like:
<xsl:variable name="navColor">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test='ancestor::top_bar'>
<xsl:text>#ffffff</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text>#000000</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
best,
-Rob
eric wrote:
>Hi. I saw in a post a bit ago a similar subject, and I tried to apply it,
>but it didn't seem to work. What am I missing?
>
>Here is the XSL:
>
> <xsl:template name="top_bar">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="document('./nav.xml')"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template name="bottom_bar">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="document('./nav.xml')"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="navigate">
> <xsl:if test='ancestor::top_bar'>
> <xsl:param name="navColor">#ffffff</xsl:param>
> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:if test='ancestor::bottom_bar'>
> <xsl:param name="navColor">#000000</xsl:param>
> </xsl:if>
>
> <xsl:value-of select="$navColor"/>
> <xsl:for-each select="lnk">
> <a href="{@href}" style="color:{$navColor};
>font-size:9pt"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="position() == last()">
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <span style="color:{$navColor}"><xsl:text> | </xsl:text></span>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
>Basically, I want the color for the top_bar to be white and the bottom bar
>to be black, but it's not applying. I also tried using: <xsl:template
>match="//navigate"> but that didn't work either. Thanks for the help.
>
>(is it not working because it's importing from an outside file?)
>
>eric
>
>
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