How can I break a table row in xsl after a specified count?

Question

I have the following xsl that sorts my xml alphabetically:

Answer 1

Here is my solution.

You can decide via parameters "per-row" and "show-empty" if you want empty cells to show up or if you want to hide them. I'm sure a much more elegant version exists, but I could not come up with one. ;-) Comments welcome.

With this input:

This output is produced (the title attributes were just for debugging. I left them in, remove them anytime):

  

    

      A
      
Agenda
    
    

      B
      
Boo
    
    

      F
      
Foo
    
    

      P
      
Policy
      
Policy
    
  
  

    

      R
      
Report
      
Report
    
    

      T
      
Test1
      
Test2