That is what I am looking for thanks.

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:53, Passin, Tom wrote:
> [Erick Todd]
> 
> > Here is my problem.  I have an xml document of items.  And I 
> > need to display these items in a table 3 across.
> > 
> > So every 3 I try to put in a </tr><tr> but that is invalid.  
> > Has anyone had to try and do this??
> > 
> 
> Xslt is mostly about selecting a set of nodes and then doing something
> with them.  So you should try to find solutions that select the right
> set of nodes, rather than think about looping through.  It is usually
> more productive. 
> 
> You also have to think in terms of creating complete elements at a time,
> not parts.
> 
> In this case, you want to select every third item, because those
> elements will represent the start of each row.  For each item in that
> set of nodes, you want to output it and its next two sibling items,
> wrapped in <tr>..</tr> element.  Right?
> 
> Here is a simple way to do that, assuming that you have a series of
> "item" elements like this:
> 
> <root>
>    <item>1</item>
>    <item>2</item>
>    ...
> </root>
> 
> =================================================
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:output encoding='iso-8859-1'/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/root">
> <results>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select='item[position() mod 3 =0]'/>
> </results>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match='item'>
> <tr>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select='.'/></td>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select='following-sibling::item[1]'/></td>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select='following-sibling::item[2]'/></td>
> </tr>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ====================================================================
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom P
> 
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