XSLT & XSL-FO: Creating a table with multiple rows?

Question

I\'m fairly new to XSLT and I am stuck with a problem where I have an Element with an unknown amount of children, and I need to display these children in a table such that there

Answer 1

The previous answers are way to complicated for what should be (and is) easy. Recursion is not required for such a simple thing.

In XSL FO you do not need to structure tables with rows. You can use the attribute "ends-row" to specify that you are ending a row and starting a new one. You can easily adapt this simple example and even pass in the "number of columns" (see the mod 5 ... which means after every fifth one start a new row ... change to 4 or 8 or whatever you wish) ... You would just create the structure for the table (fo:table and fo:table-body) outside of this. Inside the table body just put cells as children like this template does:

  
    
    
        
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So putting this into a simple example with your data ... see below. Formats your XML into five columns per row.

    
        
            
                
                
                
            
        
        
            
    
            
        
    

    
        
            
                
            
        
    
    
        
        
            
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