Outputting closing HTML table tags conditionally

Hello,

I've looked through the FAQ and tried searching http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/ but I don't believe the
archive search is working (even searching for 'html' returned 0 hits).

I am having trouble understanding how to output closing HTML tags within an <xsl:if> block. My input XML has a number of
<image> tags, and the stylesheet works perfectly except that I can't output HTML that begins with closing tags in the <xsl:if>
block. No matter what variation I use, Saxon gives up a "required string (expected "xsl:if")" error.

My stylesheet (with XML declaration, <xsl:output> and root template XSL ommitted) is:


<table><tr>

  <xsl:for-each select="image">

    <td>Image <xsl:value-of select="position()"/> / <xsl:value-of select="last()"/></td>

    <!-- BEGIN SECTION GIVING ME PROBLEMS -->
    <xsl:if test="position() mod 4 = 0">     
    </tr></table><table><tr>
    </xsl:if>
    <!-- END SECTION GIVING ME PROBLEMS -->


  </xsl:for-each>
</tr></table>    

I have tried using:

<xsl:if test="position() mod 4 = 0">
    <xsl:text></tr></table><table><tr></xsl:text>
</xsl:if>


and


<xsl:if test="position() mod 4 = 0">
    &lt;/tr>&lt;/table>&lt;table>&lt;tr>
</xsl:if>


to no avail. Adding <xsl:output method="text"/> might do it, but then my other HTML tags are stripped. The desired output is
to add '</tr></table><table><tr>' at every 4th match on <image>, as in the following exacmple output:


<table>
<tr><td>Image 1 / 5</td>
<td>Image 2 / 5</td>    
<td>Image 3 / 5</td>    
<td>Image 4 / 5</td>    
</tr>
</table>
<table><tr>
<td>Image 5 / 5</td>
</tr></table>       


Anybody have any suggestions? All I want to do is output '</tr></table><table><tr>' within xsl:if.

Mark


Mark Jordan
Acting Coordinator of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023                 
mjordan@xxxxxx / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/

 

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