Balanced Two column tables

Hi,

I'm wrestling with the age old problem of generating two-column 
output from one column data.

I've checked the FAQ (my first point of call), and found that 
4.17.1 ought to do the trick. After wrestling with it for 
a while I found that it didn't. I checked the archive, and 
Mike Brown actually posted a slight correction to his solution 
which hasn't yet made it into the FAQ

http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/archive/msg08048.html

(there's also a missing & in the test expression).

However having made these corrections I found that the generated 
table didn't actually produce what I wanted. I ended up 
with 

<td>A</td><td>B</td>
<td>B</td><td>C</td>
...etc...

Which is what you'd expect from Mikes template. But this 
doesn't do what Philip Borensteins original did (I've 
just substituted that and it works).

http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/archive/msg08040.html

So, my questions are:

1. is there an optimised version of Philips solution, or 
an alternative, correct version of Mikes.

2. is there any way to get a &nbsp; into the last column 
if theres not an even number of items (Mikes solution provides 
this, Philips didn't).

Cheers,

L.

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