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Fixed-length String Output
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- Subject: Fixed-length String Output
- From: "Deirdre O'Brien" <ddo at qad dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:27:36 +0100
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Hi,
I am trying to transform an incoming XML message to a format that will be
acceptable to our existing software package. However the existing package
excepts data on a fixed-length basis. This is the way we wish to continue.
I was wondering is there a way to force the output of select statement to
take up a certain amount of space. Not all of the elements will be
numbers. What I need is something like the format-number function but for
strings. I taught maybe there might be an attribute in value-of that would
do it, but there doesn't appear to be. Is there anything currently
available in XSLT that would do this for me? I am using the Xalan
processor.
Thanks for the help I have received so far. I have ordered a copy of "XSLT
Programmer's Reference". This hopefully will enable me to answer my own
questions.
Thanks again,
Deirdre O'Brien
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