RE: [xsl] MxN table display

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<table>
  <xsl:for-each select="field[position() mod $N = 1]">
    <tr>
      <xsl:for-each select=".|following-sibling::*[position() &lt; $N]">
        <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
      </
    </
  </
</

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: imap@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:imap@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 December 2007 15:29
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] MxN table display
> 
> Hello,
> 
> If data is in the following format:
> 
> <table numCols='5'>
>   <field name='name1'>value1</field>
>   <field name='name2'>value2</field>
>                .
>                .
>   <field name='namen'>valuen</field>
> </table>
> 
> Assuming that number of field elements are greater than 
> 'numCols', in xslt 1.0, is it possible to come up with style 
> sheet such that the elements in an html table can display the 
> field data in an MxN table?
> 
> Thanks
> __
> Seva