Subject: RE: [xsl] creating a string of repeated charactors From: "Tim Watts" <timw@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:20:52 +1000 |
Thanks Jim, for the link to http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/padding/str.padding.template.xsl It seems that repeating charactors isn't a part of XSLT at this stage - not as a function The EXSLT function <xsl:value-of select="str:padding(10, '*')" /> function is the sort of thing I hoped might exist in *standard* XSLT. Since there isn't I'll use the template that you pointed me to instead. (Thanks for saving me from writing it! :) ) I was hoping that there might me a less verbose way of doing what really is quite a simple task. Tim For others interested, but don't feel like checking the links, the template is... <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings" extension-element-prefixes="str"> <xsl:template name="str:padding"> <xsl:param name="length" select="0" /> <xsl:param name="chars" select="' '" /> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not($length)" /> <xsl:when test="string-length($chars) >= $length"> <xsl:value-of select="substring($chars, 1, $length)" /> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:call-template name="str:padding"> <xsl:with-param name="length" select="$length" /> <xsl:with-param name="chars" select="concat($chars, $chars, $chars)" /> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> -----Original Message----- From: cutlass there are many ways of doing this, try looking at the exslt.org link below http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/padding/index.html here is the link to the xslt template u may use http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/padding/str.padding.template.xsl u can directly use this individual template by either cutting and pasting or xsl:import ( u have to remember to either use the correct namespace if importing ). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Watts" <timw@xxxxxxx> To: "XSL Mailing List (E-mail)" <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 5:10 AM Subject: [xsl] creating a string of repeated charactors > I'm sure this must be a simple command, but how would something like a > string of 8 charactors be output in XSLT. > > In ASP it might look something like > String(8, "*") > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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