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 root="RegistrationList" child="Registration" delimiter="">
                <mapping pos="0" length="4" name="title" type="Element" />
	<mapping pos="1" length="10" name="surname" type="Element" />
	<mapping pos="2" length="10" name="extsurname" type="Element" />
	<mapping pos="3" length="15" name="forename" type="Element" />
                <mapping pos="4" length="5" name="ref" type="Element" />
                <mapping pos="5" length="1" name="selind" type="Element" />
	<mapping pos="6" length="1" name="deadind" type="Element" />
	<mapping pos="7" length="1" name="tranind" type="Element" />
                <mapping pos="8" length="1" name="depind" 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 references 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="ref" use="." />

<xsl:variable name="unique-ref" select="/RegistrationList/Registration/ref[generate-id() = generate-id(key('ref-key', .))]" />

<table align="center" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
	<xsl:for-each select="$unique-ref[position() mod 5 = 1]">
		<tr>
			<td>
				<xsl:value-of select="current()" />
			</td>
			<xsl:for-each select="current()[position()]/following::node()[position() < 5]">
				<td>
					<xsl:value-of select="current()" />
				</td>
			</xsl:for-each>
		</tr>
	</xsl:for-each>
</table>

The table is correctly created, but instead of the references being displayed, the value of the elements after that are displayed. i.e selind,deadind,tranind and depind.

I have tried substituting node() with $unique-ref and ref-key, but these do not appear to do anything.

I am new to using Xsl, therefore my knowledge is limited. I assumed when i created the variable unique-ref, that this would create another node-set which i could read the data from.