How to transform xml data into rows and columns?

Here is my input XML:

<data>
    <node>1</node>
    <node>2</node>
    <node>3</node>
    <node>4</node>
    <node>5</node>
    <node>6</node>
    <node>7</node>
    <node>8</node>
</data>

Required HTML output table:

row = 2

1 | 3 | 5 | 7
2 | 4 | 6 | 8

row = 3

1 | 4 | 7
2 | 5 | 8
3 | 6 | 

XSLT-1.0: ??

How do i transform the above xml to the above structure in html. The number of rows is not predefined and will be provided as a parameter.