Re: Generating table rows html from variable selected

I understand how to select the elements with not(text()) and to use an Xpath expression to make a new row every
four items, but I do not see how to select a run of content-less
elements that need to be treated that way.

<xsl:template name="rowsof4">
  <xsl:param name="nodes" select="/self::*"/>
  <!-- the default is a fancy way of saying 'no nodes'
       (by asking for the root node that is an element) -->
  <xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
    <xsl:variable name="node-position" select="position()"/>
    <xsl:if test="$node-position mod 4 = 1">
    <tr>
       <xsl:apply-templates mode="cell"
          select=". | $nodes[$node-position + 1]
                    | $nodes[$node-position + 2]
                    | $nodes[$node-position + 3]"/>
    </tr>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:call-template name="rowsof4">
  <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="$the-elements-you-want-in-your-rows]"/>
</xsl:call-template>

Cheers,
Wendell

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