Re: [xsl] XML List to Multi-column HTML transformation

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I imagine I need to do something clever involving the use of 
> 
> 	/MyElement[ position() mod X ] 
> where X is the no. of columns I require.

Columns not rows.
But since you know it's three you don't really need that at all, just
something like


<table>
<xsl:variable name="r" select="ceiling(count(MyElement) div 3)"/>
<xsl:for-each select="MyElement[position() &lt; $r">
<tr>
<td><xsl:apply-templates select="."/></td>
<td><xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::MyElement[$r]"/></td>
<td><xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::MyElement[2*$r]"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>


If you don't know in advance it's three (or even if you do) then 
you could replace the three td elements above with

<xsl:for-each select=".|following-sibling::MyElement[position() mod $r = 0]">
<td><xsl:apply-templates select="."/></td>
</xsl:for-each>

david

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