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RE: xsl:function
- From: "Andrew Welch" <awelch at piper-group dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:49:07 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:function
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The syntax is tripping you up again - because its a string you need to
enclose it in single quotes:
<xsl:variable name="x"
expr="'     .....'">
^ ^
cheers
andrew
this works nicely as
<xsl:value-of
select="concat(TITLE,substring('    etc...',
1, 60 -
string-length(TITLE)))"/>
but as
<xsl:variable name="x"
expr="     .....">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(TITLE,substring($x,1, 60 -
string-length(TITLE)))"/>
no extra spaces are added.
do i need to go read Mike's book again?
>
> Unless your fixed length fields are really long it's easier to do
> padding just using
> concat($theString,substring($x, 1, $fixedLength -
> string-length($theString)))
> where $x is a sufficiently long string of space characters.
>
> David
>
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