[xsl] Ho do you format arbitrary data into tables?

[Dan Vint <dvint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a list of data, that might be 3 items long or 100. Instead of a list 
I want to put this into an HTML or FO table where I have 3 columns and as 
many rows as is needed. I have a for-each that selects all the items that I 
want and I know what the markup is to generate, but I'm having troubles 
coming up with a solution for inserting the row start and end tags.

This is an example of what I'm doing:
<table>
<xsl::for-each select="item">
	<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>

How do I get a counter inside that allows me to insert the appropriate 
start or end tag? Is there an easy way to force for-each to work with X 
number of items at  a time (give me a nodeset of X items) that I could then 
process?

I've got an HTML hack that allows me to enter just an empty <tr/> element, 
but that is relying on bad HTML to make this work, also my ultimate goal is 
to generate FO tables for PDF output.

Any ideas appreciated.

..dan



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