RE: [xsl-fo] generating the correct number of columns

David Carlisle wrote:
>    <xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= 8]">
>    <fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/> 
>    </xsl:for-each>

thanks for answering David, however I still have two problems:

1- the value 8 is in a variable called maxNumbers and the following does not seem to work:
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;=$maxNumbers]">

2- the number of fo:table-column genereated by the following code is more than 8, it is 94.

<xsl:template match="performance-table">

  <xsl:variable name="maxNumbers">
    <xsl:for-each select="performance-tables/performance-table/performance-table-tr">
      <xsl:if test="count(performance-tables/performance-table/performance-table-tr[count(performance-table-td) >
count(current()/performance-table-td)]) = 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="count(performance-table-td)"/>:
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($maxNumbers,':')"/>

	<fo:table>
		<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= 8]"> 
			<fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/>
		</xsl:for-each>
	  <fo:table-body>
	  	<xsl:apply-templates select="performance-table-tr"/>
  	  </fo:table-body>
  	</fo:table>

</xsl:template>

here is the source xml:

	<performance-tables>
		<performance-table-name>123546</performance-table-name>
		<performance-table-remark>bla bla bla</performance-table-remark>
		<performance-table>
			<performance-table-tr/>
			<performance-table-tr>
				<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>rty.</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
			</performance-table-tr>
			<performance-table-tr>
				<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>yu</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>ui</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>uio</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>io</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>ki</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>mpl</performance-table-td>
			</performance-table-tr>
			<performance-table-tr>
				<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>1</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>3</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>4</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>5</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
			</performance-table-tr>
			<performance-table-tr>
				<performance-table-td>6| - 12 - 6</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>Clear</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>23</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>6</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>83</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>17</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>17</performance-table-td>
			</performance-table-tr>
			<performance-table-tr>
				<performance-table-td>6| - 12Ar - |6</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>Dark blue</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>23</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>6</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>83</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>16</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>16</performance-table-td>
			</performance-table-tr>
			<performance-table-tr>
				<performance-table-td>6| - 12 - 6</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>Brilliant bronze</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>25</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>18</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>3</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>63</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>20</performance-table-td>
				<performance-table-td>20</performance-table-td>
			</performance-table-tr>
		</performance-table>
	</performance-tables>

any idea on how to solve this?
regards,
Camille

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