I have a series of nodes that are direct child nodes to a parent I want to loop over those nodes but have them wrapped in 'groups' of 4... I'm probably not wording this very clearly so this might help;

```
<span class="child01">@nodename</span>
<span class="child02">@nodename</span>
<span class="child03">@nodename</span>
<span class="child04">@nodename</span>
<span class="child05">@nodename</span>
<span class="child06">@nodename</span>
<span class="child07">@nodename</span>
<span class="child08">@nodename</span>
..
<span class="child32">@nodename</span>
<span class="child33">@nodename</span>
..and so on

```

Goal

```
<div class="group">
<span class="child01">@nodename</span>
<span class="child02">@nodename</span>
<span class="child03">@nodename</span>
<span class="child04">@nodename</span>
</div>
<div class="group">
<span class="child05">@nodename</span>
<span class="child06">@nodename</span>
<span class="child07">@nodename</span>
<span class="child08">@nodename</span>
</div>
<div class="group">
..
<span class="child32">@nodename</span>
</div>
<div class="group">
<span class="child33">@nodename</span>
..and so on

```

I have tried variations on this idea - wrapping the lot in the open and closing group tags and every fourth loop drop in a new close / open pair

```
<div class="group">
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/*">

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

 <!--
            =============================================================
            After very 4th item  
            =============================================================
            -->
            <xsl:if test="position() mod 4 = 0">
              <xsl:text></div><div class="page"></xsl:text>
            </xsl:if>

        </xsl:for-each>
</div>

```

But essentially it seems XSLT won't let me start with a closing unmatched tag
The clkoset solution I ahve found so far is a 'fix' in jquery [Wrapping a div around every three divs](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6696975/wrapping-a-div-around-every-three-divs) but I would rather not rely on javascript to format the page.