Setting row color to be based on content in cells in rows in XML

[vincemoon]

What would be the best software, and also what would be the best
programming language based solution, to solve the following problem:

I have an XML data set I reference with the usual HTML table. What I
want to do, is to give rows in the data that contain, say the word X in
column 2 a red background color, while I give rows in the data that
contain, the word Y in column 2 a green background color.

More ambitiously, I would like to set rows that contain X in column 2
to have the font style, text color, text size, etc and also the
background color determined by one CSS id, while I set the rows that
contain Y in column 2 to have font style text color text size etc and
background color determined by another CSS id.

[Andy Dingley]

vi*******@rcn.com wrote:

What would be the best software, and also what would be the best
programming language based solution, to solve the following problem:

Something you already know reasonably well, or something that's worth
learning as a long term goal.

XSLT could certainly solve this problem for you (Try Michael Kay's
book if you need a tutorial).

[Peter Flynn]

vi*******@rcn.com wrote:

What would be the best software, and also what would be the best
programming language based solution, to solve the following problem:

I have an XML data set I reference with the usual HTML table. What I
want to do, is to give rows in the data that contain, say the word X in
column 2 a red background color, while I give rows in the data that
contain, the word Y in column 2 a green background color.

More ambitiously, I would like to set rows that contain X in column 2
to have the font style, text color, text size, etc and also the
background color determined by one CSS id, while I set the rows that
contain Y in column 2 to have font style text color text size etc and
background color determined by another CSS id.

See the XSL FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N961.html

///Peter
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