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2005-02-02 10:11:22
Hi

I have a requirement that involves incoming customer Purchase Orders in xml 
format and I need to extract the relevant data and output that information in a 
text file. The item code, description and order quantity need to appear in 
columns aligned with the colomn headings. I've got it all working and I'm 
seperating the columns with <xsl:text>&#09;....&#09;</xsl:text> to obtain the 
required spacing.

The problem that I've got is that the product description is variable length 
and therefore the number of &#09; characters that need inserting to line up the 
following colomns depends upon the length of the description - and I can't find 
any sort of length() function. Any suggestions how I go about this?

Regards
Roger


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