Re: Pad a string

Hi Eric,

Do a: 
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(/data/item/title)"/>

The normalize-space will get rid of the spaces before and after the
string.

Manish

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 10:44, Eric Vitiello wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have an input XML that looks something like:
> 
> <data>
> 	<item>
> 		<title>This is the title</title>
> 		<total>18</total>
> 		<date>2002-05-02</date>
> 	</item>
> 	<item>
> 		<title>This is the second title</title>
> 		<total>12</total>
> 		<date>2002-05-01</date>
> 	</item>
> 	<item>
> 		<title>This is the third title</title>
> 		<total>15</total>
> 		<date>2002-05-01</date>
> 	</item>
> </data>
> 
> I would like to output this as:
> 
> 2002-05-02 ... This is the title ................ 18
> 2002-05-01 ... This is the second title ......... 12
> 2002-05-01 ... This is the third title .......... 5
> 
> I've been unable to find a simple way in XSL to do the padding that
> I want.  I can live without the space at the beginning and end of
> the ....
> 
> is there any way that I can do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric.
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> Perceive Designs
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> 
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