RE: text output and space padding

> So that means I need to write
> data padded
> with space if the data does not fill up to the required length.

The two popular solutions to this, both of which rely on the length not
exceeding some known limit, are:

(a) take a substring() of a string containing a large number of spaces,
defined in a variable

(b) iterate over some arbitrary node-set, e.g. //node():

<xsl:for-each select="//node()[position() &lt;= $x]">
  <xsl:value-of select=" "/>
</xsl:for-each>

Mike Kay
Software AG
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