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Tables, CSS and XSL
If you want to display a list of entities using XSL and css styles in table rows, you can play on modulos using the function position() in XSL.

Suppose the following XML feed listing a set of users:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<users>
  <user>
    <id>1</id>
    <login>lo</login>
    <email>laurent@sillysmart.org</email>
  </user>
  <user>
    <id>2</id>
    <login>flo</login>
    <email>florian@sillysmart.org</email>
  </user>
  <user>
    <id>3</id>
    <login>charly</login>
    <email>charly@sillysmart.org</email>
  </user>
</users>

The following css :

table.bo_table_visible {	
  border:1px solid #000;
  border-spacing: 0px;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-bottom:10px;
}
table.bo_table_visible tr.summary th {
  background:#2E2D2D;
  color:#E45A49;
}
table.bo_table_visible tr td {
  padding:0 10px;
}
table.bo_table_visible tr.even td, table.bo_table_visible tr th {
  background-color:#FFF;
  color:#000;	
}
table.bo_table_visible tr.even:hover td {
  background-color:#FF8ABC;
  color:#FFF;
}
table.bo_table_visible tr.odd td {
  background-color:#DFDFDF;
  color:#000;
}
table.bo_table_visible tr.odd:hover td {
  background-color:#64B8FE;
  color:#FFF;
}

Simply apply the XSL script below to apply styles to your list of users:

<!--
- Apply css with XSL
-->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:php="http://php.net/xsl" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:template match="root">
    <html>
      <head></head>
      <body>
        <table class="bo_table_visible">
          <tr>
            <th>Id</th>
            <th>Login</th>
            <th>Email</th>
          </tr>
          <xsl:for-each select="//users/user">
            <xsl:variable name="cssClass">
              <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="(position() mod 2) = 0">
                  even
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                  odd
                </xsl:otherwise>
              </xsl:choose>
            </xsl:variable>
            <tr class="{$cssClass}">
              <td><xsl:value-of select="id" /></td>
              <td><xsl:value-of select="login" /></td>
              <td><xsl:value-of select="email" /></td>
            </tr>
          </xsl:for-each>
        </table>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Will produce :

Id Login Email
1 lo laurent@sillysmart.org
2 flo florian@sillysmart.org
3 charly charly@sillysmart.org
Tags:  cssxmlxsl.
Posted the Tuesday 08 september 2009 17:20:44