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Asked: 2026-06-12T18:32:38+00:00

My input XML document is a simple list of items. The number of items

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My input XML document is a simple list of items. The number of items is arbitrary:

<items>
  <item name="item1"/>
  <item name="item2"/>
  <item name="item3"/>
  ...
  <item name="itemX"/>
</items>

Now, I want to split this list into HTML tables. The number of rows and columns are given as parameter values:

<xsl:param name="rows"/>
<xsl:param name="cols"/>

If we let rows be 3, and cols be 2, the resulting HTML should look like:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>item1</td>
    <td>item2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>item3</td>
    <td>item4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>item5</td>
    <td>item6</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>item7</td>
    <td>item8</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>item9</td>
    <td>item10</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>item11</td>
    <td>item12</td>
  </tr>
</table>
...

The number of <table>s created is thus ceil(number_of_items / rows / cols)

I have a basic idea how to solve this, but I can’t seem to get the last tweaks right. The following stylesheet produces something close to what I want, but item 4, 7, 10 and 13 are duplicated.
Does anyone have a better idea about how to do this?

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:param name="cols" select="2"/>
<xsl:param name="rows" select="3"/>

<xsl:template match="/*">
  <html>
    <head/>
    <body>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="*[position() mod ($cols * $rows) = 1]" mode="table"/>
     </body>
   </html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="table">
    <table border="1" id="{@name}">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="row"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[position() &gt; 1 and position() mod $rows = 0]" mode="row"/>
     </table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="row">
    <tr id="{@name}">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="cell"/>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[position() &lt; $cols]" mode="cell"/>
    </tr>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="cell">
    <td>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
    </td>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="item">
    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can try to add +1 to $cols like this:

    <xsl:template match="*" mode="row">
<tr id="{@name}">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="cell"/>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[position() &lt; ($cols +1)]" mode="cell"/>
</tr>
</xsl:template>

    Try this for the table template (you have to limit the amount of items per table):

    <xsl:template match="*" mode="table">
<xsl:variable name="mypos" select="position()"/>
<table border="1" id="{@name}" test="{$mypos}">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="row"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[position() &gt; 1 and position() mod  $rows = 0 and position() &lt; $mypos * ($cols * $rows)]" mode="row"/>
 </table>

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