I've done this...
I put the <td> and the contents of the element inside the
conditional statement, the result was a one column table like this.
item1
item2
item3
item4
item5
item6
The layout I wanted was a two column table like
item1 item2
item3 item4
item5 item6
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:param name="cols" select="2"/>
<xsl:if test="position() % $cols = 1">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><tr></xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</td>
<xsl:if test="position() % $cols = 0 or position() = last()">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></tr></xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Hope this helps,
Dave.
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