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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: "Avula, Raj" <RAvula at firstam dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:57:02 -0700
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Thank you. It works for me.
Raj
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Becker [SMTP:obecker@informatik.hu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:49 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Appending spaces to the string dynamically
>
> > > 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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