Field padding in XSLT2

Greetings,

Here is the code fragment I use to pad a character for an XSL stylesheet
that generates a text document:

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        <xsl:template name="pad">
          <xsl:param name="num" />
          <xsl:param name="max" />
          <xsl:param name="char" />
                
          <xsl:if test="not($num = $max)">
              <xsl:value-of select="$char"/>
            <xsl:call-template name="pad">
              <xsl:with-param name="num" select="$num + 1"/>
              <xsl:with-param name="max" select="$max"/>
              <xsl:with-param name="char" select="$char"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
          </xsl:if>
        </xsl:template>


The template call to pad for 10 spaces looks like this:

<xsl:call-template name="pad">
      <xsl:with-param name="num"   select="0"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="max"   select="10"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="char"  select="&#x20;"/>
</xsl:call-template>


I have the luxury of using XSLT version 2.  Is there a better/faster/easier
way of doing this padding?

Thanks,
Jim Neff


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