Hello,

The sample below has 2 problems I cannot find the solution for:

I am reading a table from a CSV file and want to typeset it via \xtable.

The xtable as defined below works, it splits over several pages, but the
header does not repeat. I have seen examples in the mailing list where
people put the "\startxtable.....\stopxtable" within a \placefigure, but
as soon as I try this, I get an error message: "missing } or endgroup",
although I doublechecked the "}" and I see no error.

The other issue I have: Since xtable requires me to read the header line
separately in order to put it between \startxtablehead and
\stopxtablehead, I access the csv buffer twice: the first time, I only
read the first line, and the second time, I read starting from the
second line. My problem here is that I do not know beforehand the number
of lines in the csv file. So in my second \doloopfromto I give the
second argument a number high enough to be sure it reads all the lines.
It works fine, but I would like to know if there is a way to read the
number of lines in the csv file to use the exact number of lines,
instead of guessing.

\usemodule[handlecsv]


\opencsvfile{systaprov2.csv}

\starttext


\startbuffer[loop]

\startxrow

\startxcell[left] \cA \stopxcell

\startxcell[left] \cB \stopxcell

\startxcell[left] \cC \stopxcell

\startxcell[left] \cD \stopxcell

\startxcell \cE \stopxcell

\startxcell[left] \cF \stopxcell

\startxcell \cG \stopxcell

\startxcell \cH \stopxcell

\doifdefined{cI}{\startxcell \cI \stopxcell}

\doifdefined{cJ}{\startxcell \cJ \stopxcell}

\doifdefined{cK}{\startxcell [left] \cK \stopxcell}

\stopxrow

\stopbuffer

\setupxtable[offset=0cm,

frame=off,

bottomframe=on,

framecolor=gray,

option=stretch,

align=middle]

\setupxtable[head][background=color,

backgroundcolor=gray,

topframe=on,

bottomframe=on,

framecolor=black,

foregroundcolor=blue]

\setupxtable[left][align=right]

\startxtable[header=repeat]

\startxtablehead[head]

\doloopfromto{1}{1}{\getbuffer[loop]}

\stopxtablehead

\startxtablebody

\doloopfromto{2}{500}{\getbuffer[loop]}

\stopxtablebody

\stopxtable

\stoptext