RE: [xsl-fo] generating the correct number of columns for a table from h

David Carlisle wrote:
>    <xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= 8]">
>    <fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/> 
>    </xsl:for-each>
thanks for answering David, however I still have two problems:

1- the value 8 is in a variable called maxNumbers and the following does not 
seem to work:
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;=$maxNumbers]">

2- the number of fo:table-column genereated by the following code is more than 
8, it is 94.

<xsl:template match="performance-table">

  <xsl:variable name="maxNumbers">
    <xsl:for-each 
select="performance-tables/performance-table/performance-table-tr">
      <xsl:if 
test="count(performance-tables/performance-table/performance-table-tr[count(performance-table-td)
>
count(current()/performance-table-td)]) = 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="count(performance-table-td)"/>:
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($maxNumbers,':')"/>

        <fo:table>
                <xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= 8]"> 
                        <fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
          <fo:table-body>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="performance-table-tr"/>
          </fo:table-body>
        </fo:table>

</xsl:template>

here is the source xml:

        <performance-tables>
                <performance-table-name>123546</performance-table-name>
                <performance-table-remark>bla bla bla</performance-table-remark>
                <performance-table>
                        <performance-table-tr/>
                        <performance-table-tr>
                                <performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
                                
<performance-table-td>rty.</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
                        </performance-table-tr>
                        <performance-table-tr>
                                <performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>yu</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>ui</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>uio</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>io</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>ki</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>mpl</performance-table-td>
                        </performance-table-tr>
                        <performance-table-tr>
                                <performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>1</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>3</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>4</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>5</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
                        </performance-table-tr>
                        <performance-table-tr>
                                <performance-table-td>6| - 12 - 
6</performance-table-td>
                                
<performance-table-td>Clear</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>23</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>6</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>83</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>17</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>17</performance-table-td>
                        </performance-table-tr>
                        <performance-table-tr>
                                <performance-table-td>6| - 12Ar - 
|6</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>Dark 
blue</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>23</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>6</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>83</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>16</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>16</performance-table-td>
                        </performance-table-tr>
                        <performance-table-tr>
                                <performance-table-td>6| - 12 - 
6</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>Brilliant 
bronze</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>25</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>18</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>3</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>63</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>20</performance-table-td>
                                <performance-table-td>20</performance-table-td>
                        </performance-table-tr>
                </performance-table>
        </performance-tables>

any idea on how to solve this?
regards,
Camille

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