I want to display 2 records per row from a list in my SharePoint site.

I am using XSLT 1.0. This is how I want to display records:

<tr>
<td>Record1</td>
<td>Record2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Record3</td>
<td>Record4</td>
</tr>

I have written the following code to do this job but getting error on line where <tr> is written. Basically XSLT is not allowing me to write <tr> without closing </tr>. But I want it that way otherwise my logic won't work. So is there a way to achieve this?

CODE

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 1">
<tr> (this is my error line)
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>

<td>rest of my code will come here</td>

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 0">
</tr>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>

You're thinking in terms of writing tags to the serialized output. But that's not what XSLT does: it builds a tree. Writing a node is an atomic operation, you can't write two halves of a node to a tree separately.

The logic you want is something like this:

<xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
<tr>
process "."
process "./following-sibing::*[1]"
</tr>
</xsl:if>

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Michael Kay
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Ok I can change my logic slightly so the code looks like this.

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 1">
<tr>
<REST OF THE CODE HERE>
</tr>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>

But since now I will display two records in one operation, I need to know how to loop through two records at a time.

For e.g. in PHP we can use something like

(for $i=0; $i<count($records); $i+2)

Notice $i+2 in loop above as it will now loop through 2 records at a time.

if they are siblings, use the technique I showed you: process "." and "./following-sibling::*[1]".

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What is "1" in code below?

"./following-sibling::*[1]"

Can I use my column name here? I tried using "Title" and "@Title" instead of "1" but nothing was displayed on screen. "Title" is the name of column which I want to display.

>What is "1" in code below?

You're abusing this forum. Get yourself a book on XSLT and XPath, read it, and come back here if there are things you don't understand.

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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

I don't know if asking question is abusing forum. Anyway I have already solved my problem so thanks but no thanks.