RE: Re: Creating a number new nodes in a tree based up

Thanks!  I can't believe I didn't think of the recursive solution.  I'm
having a hard time with this XSLT way of thinking; my old programming biases
keep poping up.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:18 PM
> To: Robert Goheen
> Cc: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Re: Creating a number new nodes in a tree based upon a
> numeric value
> 
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Call a (recursive) named template that has a parameter the number of
> nodes to be created. It will create just one node and in case more
> nodes need to be created -- will call itself with the parameter
> decreased by one.
> 
> In case a maximum value limiting the possible number of nodes to be
> created is known in advance, then a non-recursive solution can be
> applied. It is similar to the solution of the sting-padding problem,
> but uses a pre-defined tree containing the maximum nodes rather than a
> predefined string containing the maximum number of spaces.
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> 
> Robert Goheen wrote:
> 
> > In other words, I want to create a set of new nodes, the count of
> which is
> > based upon a *value* contained in the document.  
> > 
> > ... I was wondering if there was any way to do this via the standard
> functionality
> > set.
> 
> 
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