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    <p><strong>Here is a fully generic solution that works with any number of columns</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/&gt; &lt;xsl:strip-space elements="*"/&gt; &lt;xsl:key name="kColsByName" match="Std/*" use="name()"/&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="vCols" select= "*/*/* [generate-id() = generate-id(key('kColsByName', name())[1]) ] "/&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="vNumCols" select="count($vCols)"/&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="/*/Std"&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="$vCols" mode="head"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select= "*[position() mod $vNumCols = 1]"/&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="Std/*" mode="head"&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="name()"/&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="Std/*"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates mode="inrow" select= "(. | following-sibling::*) [not(position() &gt; $vNumCols)]"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="Std/*" mode="inrow"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>When this transformation is applied on the provided XML document</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;School&gt; &lt;Std c="8"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;ABC&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;12&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Name&gt;EFG&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;11&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Name&gt;PQR&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;12&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Name&gt;XYZ&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;11&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Std&gt; &lt;/School&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>the wanted, correct result is produced</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Age&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;ABC&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;EFG&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;PQR&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;XYZ&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Now, if we add a new column, say <code>Sex</code>, to the original XML document</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;School&gt; &lt;Std c="8"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;ABC&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;12&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Sex&gt;M&lt;/Sex&gt; &lt;Name&gt;EFG&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;11&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Sex&gt;F&lt;/Sex&gt; &lt;Name&gt;PQR&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;12&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Sex&gt;F&lt;/Sex&gt; &lt;Name&gt;XYZ&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Age&gt;11&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;Sex&gt;M&lt;/Sex&gt; &lt;/Std&gt; &lt;/School&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>we can apply the same transformation above without any modifications, and it produces the correct result again -- this shows that the transformation is truly generic</strong>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Age&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Sex&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;ABC&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;M&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;EFG&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;F&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;PQR&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;F&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;XYZ&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;M&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre>
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