RE: [xsl] Appending spaces to the string dynamically

[Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>]

> > 	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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