Re: How to pad space to a text node to make it have specfic length?

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

> 
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> I can use string-length() to find the needed no of spaces to pad.
> However, since there is not for-loop or while-loop like-element in XSLT,
> I cannot easily use concat() to form a fixed-length data.
> 
> Any suggestion how to do that.
>  

What do you want to do with the data????
The answer I gave appears to do what you asked for, eg

<xsl:variable name="x">
<xsl:value-of select="substring(
'                                      ',
string-length(xxxx))"/>
<xsl:value-of select="xxxx"/>
</xsl:variable>

makes $x the text of xxx padded to length 38 with spaces.

You don't need to use any loop do you? If you did, I'm not sure what you
mean by
> since there is not for-loop or while-loop like-element in XSLT,
as loops are just a simple case of recursion, and XSLT has the more
general recursive functionality, doesn't it?

David


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