XSLT & XSL-FO: Creating a table with multiple rows?

Question

I\'m fairly new to XSLT and I am stuck with a problem where I have an Element with an unknown amount of children, and I need to display these children in a table such that there

Answer 1

One approach is to use two recursive templates:

With yout input

    
        Ralls, Kim
        
    
    
        Corets, Eva
        
    
    

you get:

    
        
            
                Ralls, Kim
            
            
                Corets, Eva
            
            
                Corets, Eva
            
            
                Randall, Cynthia
            
            
                Thurman, Paula
            
        
        
            
                Knorr, Stefan
            
            
                Kress, Peter
            
            
                Crichton, Michael
            
            
                Orwell, George
            
            
                Martin, George