Thanks for all the ideas everyone, I'll give them a try.

Chris Bordeman

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Honnen [mailto:Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:14 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  N input nodes to specific number of ouput nodes

Bordeman, Chris wrote:
> I'm trying to get the "1 to 10" to work with for-each.
>
> <xsl:for-each select="1 to 10">
>
> Problem is inside the loop how do I access the input nodes?  It keeps
> complaining that I can't use whatever element here,  "the context item

> is an atomic value."

Use a variable e.g.

   <xsl:variable name="items" select="foo"/>
   <xsl:for-each select="1 to 10">
     <bar>
       <xsl:value-of select="if ($items[position() eq current()]) then
$items[position() eq current()] else 'N/A'"/>
     </bar>
   </xsl:for-each>

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