Something like
<xsl:template match="child">
<div><table><tr><td>
<img src="images/blank.png"/>
<img src="images/blank.png"/>
<xsl:for-each select="preceding-sibling::*">
<img src="images/blank.png"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference