Using XSLT to Break XML Data into Rows

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I have some general XML data:

<project-news>
        <news-item level="1">
            <item-title>FLASHWAVE 4100 R4.1 Readies for PR1</item-title>
            <item-text>Work continues to bring the 4100 Project (4.1) toward PR1</item-text>
            <item-text>The NMIS has been updated and is Draft ready for PR1</item-text>
        </news-item>
    </project-news>
</pre><BR>There can be an arbitrary number of item-text elements.<BR><BR>I am using Apache's Forrest to display this information on a web site. I decided I wanted to break the item-text information in 2 columns so it takes less room.<BR><BR>The XSLT I have so far is:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">    <!--==================================================================== -->
    <xsl:template match="news-item" mode="new">
        <xsl:variable name="num-items" select="count(item-text)"/>
        <table width="80%">
            <tr>
                <th>
                    <xsl:if test="$num-items > 1">
                        <xsl:attribute name="colspan">2</xsl:attribute>
                    </xsl:if>
                    <xsl:value-of select="item-title"/>
                </th>
            </tr>
            <xsl:for-each select="item-text">
                <xsl:if  test="position() mod 2 != 0"><tr></xsl:if>
                <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
                <xsl:if  test="position() mod 2 = 0 or position() = last()"></tr></xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </table>
    </xsl:template>



Which is obviously not working.

I have read Michael Kay’s WROX Book: XSLT Programmer’s Reference and found where he specifically says Don’t Do This!



Yup, that’s what I want to do, delay the writing of the end-tag until I have an even numbered position() or I’m at the end of my for-each list.

What am I missing to see the solution to this problem?

Thanks,

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Hi Michael,

the idea is to apply the rule that generates a data row to every
other item-text entry and to use the following-sibling axis to
make the row contain the current item as well as the following
one (if it exists):

<xsl:template match=“news-item”>





<xsl:apply-templates select=“item-text[position() mod 2 = 1]”/>
…

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match =“item-text”>

xsl:apply-templates/
<xsl:apply-templates select = “following-sibling::item-text[1]/node()”/>

</xsl:template>

Regards,
Juliane.