> but I do not understand why your original code failed.

probably because I typed it straight into the mail message without
testing it:-)



However something a bit odd with your change. I was trying to pull out 9
columns at a time, then adding the first column to make 10.

Your change

<xsl:copy-of select="entry[1]"/>
<xsl:for-each select="entry[position()&gt;=$start][position()&lt;=10]">


will make 11 entries per row (col 1, plus (at most) 10 more entries from
the for-each.

That's fine so long as the first bit to make the colspec entries also
makes 11 columns.

David

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