Forcing String Length?

Subject: Forcing String Length?
From: "Rebecca Lundberg" <rlundberg@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:21:12 -0400
My question for the day is this:
 
Is there away to force string length? For example, my output contains a string that must contain 10 characters but the XML source is not guaranteed to supply that number of characters. 
 
Is there a better, shorter way than doing a long series using <xsl:choose>, testing string-length=10, string-length=9 etc and filling in the appropriate number of spaces (or 0's if it's a number)
 
My stylesheet HUGE because I have so many places where this must be done. It's working but I've got to find ways to trim it down.
 
Help!
 
Thanks,
Rebecca
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