Mike P wrote:

> If this piece of code sets the bgcolor to the value of @StatusColor,
> 
> <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">
>                   <xsl:value-of select="@StatusColor" />
>                 </xsl:attribute>
> 
> why doesn't replacing 'bgcolor' with 'color' or 'forecolor' set the
> forecolor to the value of @StatusColor?

Well you do not even show us what kind of element you are setting that 
attribute on. If you are generating HTML and that is a td or th cell 
element for instance then HTML 4 defines bgcolor as an attribute but 
neither color nor forecolor 
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#adef-bgcolor>). If 
that is a HTML body element then the text attribute is a deprecated way 
to suggest the text color 
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-BODY>).
So you are asking in the wrong group if this is an HTML problem, XSLT 
simply generates some result tree and serializes that, whether bgcolor 
or color or forecolor has any meaning depends on the HTML or XML you 
generate. Nowadays if that is HTML then you should generate the proper 
structure with HTML and suggest the wanted presentation with CSS, see 
the CSS 2.1 specification <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/> or try a CSS 
tutorial.

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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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