Re: AW: simple conditional looping

> The orders tag will grow as and when new orders are added.

well actually the tag will stay the same size (both the start and end
tags) (don't use "tag" to mean element content, as it means something
rather different)

a recursive template is a good idea, but if you want to use the
position() method you can do here as well.

<xsl:template match="orders">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="order"/>
<xsl:for each select="(document('')//node())
                          [position() &lt;= 50 - count(current()/order)]">
 blank row
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

will work so long as you have at least 50 element text or comment nodes in your stylesheet.
(safer, although more expensive,  to use (document('')// rather than
just // as then you don't need to worry about small input files not
having enough nodes)

David

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