You were doing OK undil you got to

> In other words I need a counter that will
> keep a count of each ArchiveName group 

you don't need a counter, you just need to select the nodes you want in
each group
.
Jeni's pages have a lot of information about grouping.

 http://www.jenitennison.com/

but the most basic way is to first select the first node in each group

<xsl:for-each 
  select="NODE[@ARCHIVENAME!=preceding-sibling::NODE/@ARCHIVENAME]">
now start a row and do anything else you want to do
<tr>
now select the nodes for this row
<xsl:for-each
  select=following-sibling::NODE[@ARCHIVENAME=current()/@ARCHIVENAME]">




David

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