xsl for-each: add code block every n rows?

Question

I am trying to transform a bit of xml which represents an image gallery into an html table. (it must be done with html and not with css). How do I add the row break

Answer 1

How do I add the row break every six or so columns with xsl?

In XSLT you don't!

XSLT processes nodes, not tags.

Here is the XSLT way of positional grouping:

when this transformation is applied on the following XML document:

    
        http://server/picts/1
        Description 1
    
    
        http://server/picts/2
        Description 2
    
    
        http://server/picts/3
        Description 3
    
    
        http://server/picts/41
        Description 4
    
    
        http://server/picts/5
        Description 5
    
    
        http://server/picts/6
        Description 6
    
    
        http://server/picts/7
        Description 7
    
    
        http://server/picts/8
        Description 8
    
    
        http://server/picts/9
        Description 9
    

the wanted, correct result is produced: