Re: [xsl] xsl:function

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> thanks David..

sorry I couldn't look in detail at your code:-)

saxon:/xsl:function is a natural component of a functional luanguage that
just didn't get in to XSLT 1.

But
    		<saxon:assign name="i" expr="$i+1"/>
causes extreme damage to the functional paradigm (and to my eyes...)


Unless your fixed length fields are really long it's easier to do
padding just using 
concat($theString,substring($x, 1, $fixedLength - string-length($theString)))
where $x is a sufficiently long string of space characters.

David

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