XML List to Multi-column HTML transformation

Hi all,

I've had a quick look in the archive and saw some items
close to this, I imagine it is a common question so
apologies if this is a pain.

Basically, is there a preferred method for transforming
a list of items (elements) in an XML source to a sorted,
multi-column HTML table.

e.g. 10 items in a list to a table of 3 cols. like this

		1	5	9
		2	6	10
		3	7
		4	8

I imagine I need to do something clever involving the use of 

	/MyElement[ position() mod X ] 

				where X is the no. of columns I require.


I assume I would need to use a select such as this for each column
since the HTML table is created row-wise.

	<tr>
		<td>col1 select</td>	
		<td>col2 select</td>
		<td>col3 select</td>
	</tr>

I can think of ways to do most of the work but if someone has
done this elegantly I'd love to know how.

Many thanks,
Chris

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