Hello Ross

> I need to add n number of characters, the "0" character specifically, to
> the text of a particular element depending on the length of the element's
text.
>
> VB had a function for this called String(char, n).
> Called like this, String("0", 2) would return "00"
> I am not sure what the Java analog is.

Perl can do this as well ala ( $var .= "0" x 2; ), but in Java you probably
have to use a for loop

    String var = ""
    for( int x=0; x < 2; x++ )
            {
                 String += "0";
            }

I personally would use java and store the strings in your xml document, but
there is probably a way to do what you want in pure XSLT with a
<xsl:for-each> that would loop n times for n zeros, you could probably even
have a template that does this and takes the number of times to loop as an
<xsl:param>

Good luck.
-matt


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