Re: Formatting table information

<xsl:template name="longest-str">
  <xsl:param name="set"/>
  <xsl:param name="curr-max-size" select="0"/>
  <xsl:param name="index" select="1"/>

<xsl:template name="append-pad">
   <xsl:param name="pad-char"><xsl:text>&space;</xsl:text></xsl:param>
   <xsl:param name="pad-var"/>
   <xsl:param name="length"/>
   <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="string-length($pad-var) &lt; $length">
       <xsl:call-template name="append-pad">
        <xsl:with-param name="pad-char" select="$pad-char"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="pad-var"
                select="concat($pad-var, $pad-char)"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="length" select="$length"/>
       </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
       <xsl:value-of select="substring($pad-var, 1, $length)"/>
   </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

In a previous post I mentioned that that I have created a template to
format lines to a fixed width and a function to format a table. When I
said table, I meant something with only two columns. Now, I need to
format a table with three columns.

Hi Kamal,

I am not sure that I understand all your requirements, but for getting
3 columns, the solution is the same as for 2 columns, you will just
have to use modulo 3 instead of modulo 2. I do not know whether this
is enough to get you in the right direction.

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)