Re: Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.

From: "Avula, Raj" <RAvula@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject:  Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:15:04 -0700

	Hi,
		I am writing XSL to generate Text Report which is position
specific.
	That is each attribute/element has to occupy certain no. of
characters
	(eg: Customer ID should occupy 1-10 characters, and firstname 11-35
etc.
	If the input is less than the specified charactes, I am appending
the spaces.)

	Sample XML:
<customer id="100">
	<name>
		<firstname>Steve</firstname>
	</name>
</customer>

	I am using follwoing command to print the first name that should
occupy 25 characters.
		<xsl:variable name="twentyfive_spaces" select="'
'" />
		<xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
		<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(name/firstname,
$twentyfive_spaces), 1, 25)" />
		<xsl:text>*</xsl:text>

	But the problem is if there are any special characters in the input,
then the ouput is
	exceeding 25 characters.

Sample ouput in normal case is
*Steve                    *

In case of input like <firstname>St&amp;eve</firstname>, output will be
*St&amp;eve                   *
	which exceeds 25 characters.

Please let me know, how can I handle this condition in XSL.

Regards,
Raj

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