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Re: Pad a string
- From: "Manish M. Shah" <manish at catylist dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: 07 May 2002 11:34:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Pad a string
- References: <02May7.113506edt.119043@pcbhi266.bhsi.com>
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Hi Eric,
Do a:
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(/data/item/title)"/>
The normalize-space will get rid of the spaces before and after the
string.
Manish
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 10:44, Eric Vitiello wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have an input XML that looks something like:
>
> <data>
> <item>
> <title>This is the title</title>
> <total>18</total>
> <date>2002-05-02</date>
> </item>
> <item>
> <title>This is the second title</title>
> <total>12</total>
> <date>2002-05-01</date>
> </item>
> <item>
> <title>This is the third title</title>
> <total>15</total>
> <date>2002-05-01</date>
> </item>
> </data>
>
> I would like to output this as:
>
> 2002-05-02 ... This is the title ................ 18
> 2002-05-01 ... This is the second title ......... 12
> 2002-05-01 ... This is the third title .......... 5
>
> I've been unable to find a simple way in XSL to do the padding that
> I want. I can live without the space at the beginning and end of
> the ....
>
> is there any way that I can do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric.
> ---
> Eric Vitiello
> Perceive Designs
> <www.perceive.net>;
>
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