RE: FW: xsl code to create tables of different number

columns, and in the second table 2. Throughout the book there can be a number of tables with different amount of columns/rows. Thus, I have to create a template that can interpret the cols="?" attribute and for each instance create a table with that amount of columns.

I am not good (yet) with xml or html. If I create an html table first, how do I then apply the tgroup/@cols to that?

<data>
   <table>
       <tgroup cols="3">
           <colspec colname="col1"/>
           <colspec colname="col2"/>
           <colspec colname="col3"/>
           <tbody>
               <row>
                   <entry>column1rowa</entry>
                   <entry>column2rowa</entry>
                   <entry>column3rowa</entry>
               </row>
               <row>
                   <entry>column1rowb</entry>
                   <entry>column2rowb</entry>
                   <entry>column3rowb</entry>
               </row>
           </tbody>
       </tgroup>
   </table>
   <table>
       <tgroup cols="2">
           <colspec colname="col1"/>
           <colspec colname="col2"/>
           <tbody>
               <row>
                   <entry>column1rowa</entry>
                   <entry>column2rowa</entry>
               </row>
               <row>
                   <entry>column1rowb</entry>
                   <entry>column2rowb</entry>
               </row>
               <row>
                   <entry>column1rowc</entry>
                   <entry>column2rowc</entry>
               </row>
           </tbody>
       </tgroup>
   </table>
</data>

   <xsl:template match="/">
       <data>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="data/table"/>
       </data>
	</xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="table">
       <table>
           <tr>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/colspec"/>
           </tr>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row"/>
       </table>
	</xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="row">
       <tr>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="entry"/>
       </tr>
	</xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="colspec">
       <th><xsl:value-of select="@colname"/></th>
	</xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="entry">
       <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
	</xsl:template>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<data>
 <table>
   <tr>
     <th>col1</th>
     <th>col2</th>
     <th>col3</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>column1rowa</td>
     <td>column2rowa</td>
     <td>column3rowa</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>column1rowb</td>
     <td>column2rowb</td>
     <td>column3rowb</td>
   </tr>
 </table>
 <table>
   <tr>
     <th>col1</th>
     <th>col2</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>column1rowa</td>
     <td>column2rowa</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>column1rowb</td>
     <td>column2rowb</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>column1rowc</td>
     <td>column2rowc</td>
   </tr>
 </table>
</data>