Many thanks Oleg - easy when someone explains it to you :-)

Darren

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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> Darren Franklin wrote:
>
> > I cannot seem to find a solution to this and as wondering if anyone with
> > more experience than I can see a solution.
> >
> > Given an example below:
> >
> >    <data>sometext<data>
> >
> > is it possible to apply a stylesheet, such that the data 'sometext' is
> > always longer that a given value, say 10.  When it is less than 10 I
would
> > like spaces to be added to it, i.e. 'sometext  '
>
> There are lots of methods of doing it.
> With EXSLT you can use str:padding() function, in pure XSLT you can do
> just the following:
>
> <!-- Make sure it's enough -->
> <xsl:variable name="space" select="'                              '"/>
>
> <xsl:value-of select="data"/>
> <xsl:if test="string-length(data) &lt; 10">
>    <xsl:value-of select="substring($space, 1, 10 - string-length(data))"/>
> </xsl:if>
>
> -- 
> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
> http://blog.tkachenko.com