RE: [xsl] repetition

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> i want to know how i can repeat an instruction in xsl
> for example i want to display text "toto" n time
> whithout repeating
> <xsl:text>toto</xsl:text>   n time.
> thanks

An alternative to the recursive solution, provided that $n is less than
the number of nodes in your source document, is:

<xsl:for-each select="(//node())[position() &lt;=
$n]">toto</xsl:for-each>

In XPath 2.0 you can use the string-pad() function

Michael Kay


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