select="substring('...................................',
1, $myLength)"/> should do the trick!
But if $myLength is greater than the number of chars
in the string?
-Ranjan
--- Eric van der Vlist <vdv(_at_)dyomedea(_dot_)com> wrote:
On ven, 2005-04-22 at 03:47 -0700, Ranjan K. Baisak
wrote:
In a reporting application, I need to print number
of
chars e.g. '.'s depending upon some numeric
variable.
SO it would be a kind of array of chars.
Isn't a string a kind of array of chars ;-) ???
Any function available for the same?
what about substring()?
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116#function-substring
<xsl:value-of
select="substring('...................................',
1, $myLength)"/> should do the trick!
Eric
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