RE: Line Numbering

->-----Original Message-----
->From: Darrin Bishop [mailto:dbishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
->Subject: Line Numbering

Hi,

->I know that xml is not about formatting, but I need  to 
->transform some xml
->to html that will allow me to put sixty charecters on a line 
->and then break.
->I have not seen any discussion on this nor is there anything 
->in the archives
->that I could find.  Is this not possible with xslt?  I have XSLT
->Programmer's Reference but can not seem to get going in the 
->right direction.

yes, it is possible. Use recursion:

<xsl:template name="out">
  <xsl:param name="text"/>

  ...
  <xsl:value-of select="substring ($text, 1,60)"/>
  ...

  <xsl:if test="substring($text,61) != ''">
    <xsl:call-template name="out">
      <xsl:with-param name="text">
        <xsl:value-of select="substring($text,61)"/>
      </xsl:with-param>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

I didn't test it, but it should work :-)

bye
Frank
-
Frank Spychalski
Research Engineer
SAP Labs, Palo Alto           frank.spychalski@xxxxxxx 


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