awesome, you the best.  I pounded my head against this one for 1 1/2 days.  
now hopefully I haven't missed anything with my logic on this simple example 
and the complicated one back at work.
thanks!!!
will
From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)de>
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Subject: Re: [xsl] thanks! now help on alternating rows needed.
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:00:58 +0200
Bill Carter wrote:
now we get to my real problem. I am trying to alternate row colors on a 
table.
The trick is to select only unique tickers and then use position()
to determine the bg color as usual:
  <xsl:for-each select=stocks/ticker[not(.=previous::ticker)]">
    ...
J.Pietschmann
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