your sample input wasn't well formed but judging by the required result
I think you intended the file below, the xsl produces the requested
result without any use of variables or position().
<Report xmlns="">
<Measures>
<Measure idx="1" heading="Total Pages" />
<Measure idx="2" heading="Cost" />
</Measures>
<Rows>
<RowGrp>
<Row heading="Name 1">
<Cell>
<Msr idx="1" val="10" />
<Msr idx="2" val="15" />
</Cell>
<Cell/>
</Row>
<Row heading="Name 2">
<Cell />
<Cell>
<Msr idx="1" val="45" />
<Msr idx="2" val="34" />
</Cell>
<Cell>
<Msr idx="1" val="123" />
<Msr idx="2" val="19" />
</Cell>
</Row>
</RowGrp>
</Rows>
</Report>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="Report">
<html>
<head><title>report</title></head>
<body>
<table>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Measures">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Row">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Measure">
<th><xsl:value-of select="@heading"/></th>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Msr">
<td><xsl:value-of select="@val"/></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Cell[not(*)]">
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ saxon rept.xml rept.xsl
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>report</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Total Pages</th>
<th>Cost</th>
<th>Total Pages</th>
<th>Cost</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td>15</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>45</td>
<td>34</td>
<td>123</td>
<td>19</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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