Re: [xsl] A beautiful way to populate a variable with N blanks?

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2/24/2023 um 3:44 PM schrieb Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx:
> Hi Folks,
>
> $N contains an integer.
>
> $blanks is a string variable. The string is to consist of $N blanks (space
characters).
> Below is one way to populate $blanks. It's an awful solution. Is there a
beautiful (simple) solution?
> <xsl:variable name="tmp" as="xs:string+">
>      <xsl:sequence select="''" />
>      <xsl:sequence select="for $i in 1 to $N return (' ')"/>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:variable name="blanks" as="xs:string">
>      <xsl:value-of select="$tmp" separator=""/>
> </xsl:variable>


I would think using a select attribute e.g.

B  <xsl:param name="blanks" select="string-join((1 to $N)!' ', '')"/>

is more appropriate than using a nested xsl:param/xsl:value-of.