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RE: Appending spaces to the string dynamically
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Appending spaces to the string dynamically
- From: Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:49:17 +0200 (MET DST)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> > I want to append the spaces to string dynamically.
> > How can I creating the string that containing the no. of
> > spaces depend on
> > input dynamically.
Mike Kay wrote:
> Assuming there's a reasonable upper limit to the number of spaces you'll
> need:
>
> <xsl:variable name="spaces"> </xsl:variable>
> <xsl:value-of select="concat($string, substring($spaces, 1, $n))"/>
Does this work with Saxon? ;-)
Whitespace-only text nodes are stripped from the stylesheet (except for
xsl:text). In this case one has to write
<xsl:variable name="spaces" select="' '" />
Sorry for being a wiseacre, ;-)
Oliver
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