Re: Print number of chars depending upon int value

select="substring('...................................',
1, $myLength)"/> should do the trick!

But if $myLength is greater than the number of chars
in the string?

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:call-template name="dots">
      <xsl:with-param name="count">100</xsl:with-param>
    </xsl:call-template>
 </xsl:template>

        <xsl:if test="$count &gt; 0">
          <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
          <xsl:call-template name="dots">
            <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count -1"/>
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>

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