Two column per row woes....

Hi All
have just spent the last couple of hours trying to do something which I was hoping would be fairly simple - the only thing I have figured out is that it is not simple.
Heres my problem, I have data structured like so
<HORSE>
<HORSE_NAME>Chris One</HORSE_NAME>
</HORSE>
<HORSE>
<HORSE_NAME>Chris Two</HORSE_NAME>
</HORSE>
<HORSE>
<HORSE_NAME>Chris Three</HORSE_NAME>
</HORSE>
<HORSE>
<HORSE_NAME>Chris Four</HORSE_NAME>
</HORSE>
I want the data to come out in RTF data like this
Chris One Chris Two
Chris Three Chris Four
I really want to avoid changing the data file.
So I don't come across as a lazy boy I have looked into a couple of things....
Tims blog on Rows and Columns - this is the direction I need to go but I don't get how to force a new line - I tried it and got all records on one line.
I've read various forum posts a blog by another guy doing invoice stuff - which seems over complicated for what I need.
Tim - any chance you could do a follow up to your rows and columns blog??
I'm running latest BIP,
my data can have x amount of records and may be an odd or even amount of records.
Thanks in advance

Hi Tim / Vetsrini
I always think its nice to post a follow up to how people got on so here goes.
Vets - I liked your idea of only having one loop so I gave it a go, unfortunately it didn't work. If I only had one horse it would not display anything, and if there were an odd number the last line would populate the right hand side of the table instead of the left.
I like the idea of this preceding-sibbling command but just wonder whether it is really clever enough - in that what can precede one record? I think I'll do some research on it when I get a little bit of time as I do see the potential.
Tim - Must admit that this solution was almost so simple I felt like slapping myself, I guess thats what happens when you trawl through BIP docs for to long ;)
Anyway for anybody else reading this in the future Tims method works fine, a nice comibnation of simpe mathematics and common sense.
Thanks
Chris

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