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

["Toshihiko Makita tmakita@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about the following?

<xsl:variable name="blanks" as="xs:string" select="string-join(for $i in 
1 to $N return (' '), '')"/>

On 2/24/2023 11:44 PM, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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>
Toshihiko Makita
Antenna House, Ina Branch.