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

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

Hi Chiris

 > That being said, I still enjoy seeing clever uses of the "!" operator!

Yes, I also agreed!

On 2/25/2023 12:05 AM, Chris Papademetrious 
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> Hi Makita-san,
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> That is the form I was about to post too. Martin's suggestion is a novel use of the "!" operator, but my OCD seems to not like generating data that is never meaningfully used. Although longer, I feel the "for" loop's intent is a bit easier for future novices to follow.
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> That being said, I still enjoy seeing clever uses of the "!" operator!
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> From: Toshihiko Makitatmakita@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
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> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 9:59 AM
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> Subject: Re: [xsl] A beautiful way to populate a variable with N blanks?
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> How about the following?
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> <xsl:variable name="blanks" as="xs:string" select="string-join(for $i in
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> 1 to $N return (' '), '')"/>
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> On 2/24/2023 11:44 PM, Roger L Costellocostello@xxxxxxxxx  wrote:
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>> 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 $N return (' ')"/>
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>> <xsl:variable name="blanks" as="xs:string">
>>       <xsl:value-of select="$tmp" separator=""/> </xsl:variable>
> Toshihiko Makita
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> Antenna House, Ina Branch.
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