Conditionally format PDF output

Question

Hi
In my report, I use this technique to highlight in red some rows:
      case when a.completed_date is null then
          '<div style="color:red">'||a.action_description||'</div>'
      else a.action_description end action_description,However, the div part is ignored when the report is exported to PDF (using Apache FOP) and all rows display in black.
To fix it, I created a new report template and added a conditional display to it:
<xsl:if test="contains(.//#COLUMN_HEADER_NAME#, 'color:red')">
<fo:inline xsl:use-attribute-sets="highlight">
<xsl:value-of select="#COLUMN_HEADER_NAME#"/>
</fo:inline>
</xsl:if>
I.e., if the column contents contains "color:red" it should print using the highlight attribute set. However it does not work. If I remove the div (so the color:red part actually displays in the report) it works.
So I guess that all html tagging is removed before passing the data to the PDF generation -- is this correct? Any advice on how to implement this in that case?
Thanks,
Luis

Answer 1

Marc,
Thanks for the response. There is another column in the report ("Status") on which I can base my logic to conditionally display one or another block, but this layout, obviously, will be specific to that report.
I was just wondering if it could be done it in a more generic way... apparently not!
Cheers,
Luis