Re: Forcing String Length?

[Stephen Zisk <szisk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about:

  substr (concat (<your-target-string>, '          '), 1, 10)

for blank fill, and the same with '0000000000' for zero fill. No 
<xsl:choose>, no extra verbiage.

> 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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