background colour and font of the table.

Hi,

Problem 1:

I wanted alternate rows of my table to be differently colored.

So, i added a template to my customization layer i found at

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TableTemplateCust.html#TableContinuedLabel

<xsl:template name="table.row.properties">

  <xsl:variable name="tabstyle">
    <xsl:call-template name="tabstyle"/>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="bgcolor">
    <xsl:call-template name="dbfo-attribute">
      <xsl:with-param name="pis" select="processing-instruction('dbfo')"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="attribute" select="'bgcolor'"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:variable>
  
  <xsl:variable name="rownum">
    <xsl:number from="tgroup" count="row"/>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$bgcolor != ''">
      <xsl:attribute name="background-color">
        <xsl:value-of select="$bgcolor"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$tabstyle = 'striped'">
      <xsl:if test="$rownum mod 2 = 0">
        <xsl:attribute name="background-color">#EEEEEE</xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

After this i set the tabstyle attribute of the table to "striped".

But nothing happened. What am i doing wrong? Also What colour does #EEEEEE represent?

Problem 2:

In the table suppose in cell there is a lot of text with long words, then alignment of text gets disturbed. I can see lot of spaces between two small words to accommodate the big word from next line like

| abd     ads         sbd |

| AnmolGupta ads as  |

It should have been like

| abd ads sbd             |
| AnmolGupta ads as  |

How can i do this?

Thanks and Regards,

..Anmol

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