> Is it possible to loop over characters in a string?  For 
> example, I want:
> 
> XML: <tag>value</tag>
> 
> HTML: XXXXXvalue
> (5 X's, 1 for each character of 'value')
>
Use the //* trick:

<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= string-length(tag)">
  <xsl:text>X</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="tag"/>
 
Mike Kay
Software AG

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