Re: Repeating something "n" times. [via variable]

If you cannot use recursion ( I love it :)) ),

try this stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl =
"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version = "1.0"
> 

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:call-template name="printBR">
    <xsl:with-param name="number" select="2"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
  <xsl:text>===</xsl:text>
  <xsl:call-template name="printBR">
    <xsl:with-param name="number" select="4"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name = "printBR" > 
  <xsl:param name="number"/>
  <xsl:variable name="brSet" >  
   
<xsl:text><![CDATA[<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>]]></xsl:text>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
select="substring($brSet,1,$number*4)"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet> 



robert@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> You're kidding me I have to do that? It'll work but is that the way it's
> done in XSL?
> 
> This won't work in my case because my template does stuff before it
> outputs the <BR>'s and I don't want it to do that stuff again and I really
> didn't want to have to factor that code into another template because then
> I have to pass a parameter that spans two templates.
> 
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Mike Brown wrote:
> 
> > robert@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > How do I repeat something 'n' times without a node list with n elements?
> >
> > Put the task in a named template that takes a numeric parameter and, if
> > the parameter is greater than one, calls itself when it's done, passing
> > in the parameter minus one.
> >
> >    - Mike
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > Mike J. Brown, software engineer at         My XML/XSL resources:
> > webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA           http://www.skew.org/xml/
> >
> 
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