But then I will need to do a for loop with index like in C:
for (i=0;i<30;i++)
which I know it cannot be done in XSL.  Any ideas?

You can ask for the length of the string with the string-length function and
use that as an argument to substring a suitably long string of spaces.
Will that do?
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