Peter van Schie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing a searchinterface on a mysql database in PHP. I retrieve
> the searchoutput and write it to an XML file, which is then being
> displayed in the webbrowser. I'm using XSLT to process the XML file and
> to output HTML.
> 
> So far so good, but now I want to switch the background color for each
> resultrow.
> So resultrow 1 should have say background color white, resultrow 2
> grey, resultrow 3 white again and so on.
> 
> The relevant part of my XSLT looks like this:
> 
> <table class="searchresults">
> <xsl:for-each select="result/document">
> <tr><td colspan="3"><strong><a href="viewfulldoc.php"><xsl:value-of
> select="dossiernaam"/></a></strong></td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="3" class="preview"><xsl:value-of
> select="fulltext"/></td></tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select="documenttype"/></td>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select="organisatie"/></td>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select="invoerdatum"/></td>
> </tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </table>
> 
> I'd somehow like to keep track of a rowcounter to know if it's an odd
> or even row, but how would I do something like that in XSLT.
> I'm obviously new to XSLT, so please bear with me. :)
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Peter.
> 

It is easy,
just use the module operator,

1 mod 2 = 1
2 mod 2 = 0
3 mod 2 = 1
4 mod 2 = 0

so in your case:

<xsl:if test="(position() mod 2)=0">
	- put the style here.
</xsl:if>


Hope it helps.