Re: maximum depth of nested tags needed for colspan

Cheers,
Wendell

        <xsl:template name="max">
                <xsl:param name="list"/>
                <xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="$list">
                                <xsl:variable name="first"
select="count($list[1]/LINE)"/>
                                <xsl:variable name="max-of-rest">
                                        <xsl:call-template name="max">
                                                <xsl:with-param
name="list" select="$list[position()!=1]"/>
                                        </xsl:call-template>
                                </xsl:variable>
                                <xsl:choose>
                                        <xsl:when test="$first &gt;
$max-of-rest">
                                                <xsl:value-of
select="$first"/>
                                        </xsl:when>
                                        <xsl:otherwise>
                                                <xsl:value-of
select="$max-of-rest"/>
                                        </xsl:otherwise>
                                </xsl:choose>
                        </xsl:when>
                        <xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:template>

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