I've done this...

> I put the <td> and the contents of the element inside the 
> conditional statement, the result was a one column table like this.
> 
> item1
> item2
> item3
> item4
> item5
> item6
> 
> 
> The layout I wanted was a two column table like
> 
> item1 	item2
> item3		item4
> item5		item6

<xsl:template match="item">
  <xsl:param name="cols" select="2"/>

  <xsl:if test="position() % $cols = 1">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;tr&gt;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:if>
  <td>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </td>
  <xsl:if test="position() % $cols = 0 or position() = last()">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/tr&gt;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Hope this helps,
Dave.

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