I am using xsl to create reports in HTML and RTF from a textfile. I am using an xml mapping file in the following format.

<mappings>
        <mapping pos="0" name="title" type="Element" />
    <mapping pos="1" name="surname" type="Element" />
    <mapping pos="2" name="extsurname" type="Element" />
    <mapping pos="3" name="forename" type="Element" />
    <mapping pos="4" name="initial" type="Element" />
        <mapping pos="5" name="ref" type="Element" />
</mappings>

I have created the reports easily, but I have to create a title page, which includes listing the references in the report. I would like to display these in a dynamic table, as there will be an unknown quantity of referances used.

I have tried to produce a 5 columned table as follows but to no avail. It correctly creates the required rows, but I am not able to enter the data into the cells after the first value of the row.

<xsl:key name="ref-key" match="mappings" use="ref" />

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="unique-ref" select="/mappings/mapping[generate-id(.) = generate-id(key('ref-key', ref))]/ref" />
<table align="center" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
    <xsl:for-each select="$unique-gpref[position() mod 5 = 1]">
       <tr>
          <td>
              <xsl:value-of select="." />
          </td>
          <xsl:for-each select="current()[position()]/following::$unique-gpref[position() &lt; 5]">
             <td>
               <xsl:value-of select="." />
              </td>
           </xsl:for-each>
       </tr>
     </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

I don't think it is possible to use following as i am not using nodes. Is there any other way to read through the variable while maintaing the correct position?