Hi.  I've recently started looking into XSLT and in my exploration so
far I've found something that, I hope, must have an easier solution.

My test case is a table where, based on one condition, the cell
background has to be a different colour.  To do this I have something
like this:

<tr>
   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="NAME='smith'">
       <td valign='top' bgcolor='#D0E0E0'>
         <i><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>:</i>
       </td>
     </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
     <td valign='top'>
        <i><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>:</i>
     </td>
   </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
</tr>

What I'd _like_ to do is this:

<tr>
   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="NAME='smith'">
       <td valign='top' bgcolor='#D0E0E0'>
     </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
     <td valign='top'>
   </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
         <i><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>:</i>
       </td>
</tr>

but I can't because the element nesting is broken.  So I have to repeat
my table cell for each case, i.e.

         <i><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>:</i>

appears multiple times.  Given that the contents of the cell could be
potentially huge, and I could have many different test cases for
different cell colours, and I don't want to have to make the same
change in multiple places when I re-work the cell content, this seems
like a really bad scheme.

I'm sure, therefore, there is some 'standard' way of dealing with these
cases, and I'd be grateful for anyone to tell me what it is.

Thanks,
Colin