The syntax is tripping you up again - because its a string you need to
enclose it in single quotes:

<xsl:variable name="x"
	expr="'&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;.....'">
            ^                              ^

cheers
andrew



this works nicely as
<xsl:value-of
select="concat(TITLE,substring('&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;etc...',
							   1, 60 -
string-length(TITLE)))"/>

but as
<xsl:variable name="x"
	expr="&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;.....">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(TITLE,substring($x,1, 60 -
string-length(TITLE)))"/>

no extra spaces are added.
do i need to go read Mike's book again?

>
> Unless your fixed length fields are really long it's easier to do
> padding just using
> concat($theString,substring($x, 1, $fixedLength -
> string-length($theString)))
> where $x is a sufficiently long string of space characters.
>
> David
>



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