This was a fun one to work on!!! I had no idea where to start with this... but I found the answer...

You want to loop over the nodes that require the <div> first. This will be 1, 6, 11, 16.... so position() mod 5 = 1 will get you those indexes.

Then within that loop, you want to go from that node, to the next 5 nodes. Do this using the 'following-sibling' feature in XSLT.

Your code will look like this:-

<xsl:for-each select="./item[position() mod 5 = 1]">

<div>

<xsl:for-each select=". | following-sibling::*[not(position() >= 5)]">

<xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" /><br />

</xsl:for-each>

</div>

</xsl:for:each>

Enjoy.

- Sean

haha, i'm glad somebody had fun with this ;-) 

thanks! i'm gonna try it right away...

hmm.. should this code work "out of the box", or does it need some modifcations?

when i put this in a macro on "node2" (or "node1", but should be inserted at node2), I don't get any results...

here's what i did:

<xsl:template match="/">    
  start
    <xsl:for-each select="./item[position() mod 5 = 1]">
      
      in loop 
    
      <div>
        <xsl:for-each select=". | following-sibling::*[not(position() >= 5)]">
          in second loop
          <xsl:value-of select="./@nodeName" /><br />
        xsl:for-each>
      div>
  xsl:for-each>
  
  
xsl:template>

on the site it will only output "start".

what does item[] do? is this the same as for example: $currentPage/ancestor-or-self [position()=2] ?

Why don't you use $currentPage here: xsl:for-each select="./item[position() mod 5 = 1]">  or is a "." the same as currentPage?

I change the first for-each to:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc][position() mod 5 = 1]">

Which seems to work! 

Still not sure what the second for-each loop reads in pseudo.. for example:

for each currentnode OR (? not sure pipe symbol) the node next to it as long as the position < 5 do

because i'd like to understand what the code does...

thanks

The $currentPage works there because that's the page that you are currently on. My code was intended to be in it's own template, which you call using $currentPage, so it's essentially the same thing. I'm not sure of your knowledge of XSLT, so I can explain this further if you like?

The second for-each loop works pretty much the way your pseudo code says. The pipe acts as an OR, and we go through the nodes, starting with the current one that you're 'talking about' (i.e the item from the first loop (items 1, 6, 11, 16...)), and choosing each node along from that, as long as it's not more than 5 places along from it.

It's a little confusing, even for me, but your pseudo code seems to show that you get the gist of it.

 - Sean

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