Thank you. It works for me. 

Raj


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Oliver Becker [SMTP:obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Monday, July 09, 2001 2:49 AM
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	RE:  Appending spaces to the string dynamically
> 
> > > 	I want to append the spaces to string dynamically.
> > > How can I creating the string that containing the no. of
> > > spaces depend on
> > > input dynamically.
> 
> Mike Kay wrote:
> > Assuming there's a reasonable upper limit to the number of spaces you'll
> > need:
> > 
> > <xsl:variable name="spaces">                       </xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:value-of select="concat($string, substring($spaces, 1, $n))"/>
> 
> Does this work with Saxon? ;-)
> Whitespace-only text nodes are stripped from the stylesheet (except for 
> xsl:text). In this case one has to write
> <xsl:variable name="spaces" select="'                  '" />
> 
> Sorry for being a wiseacre, ;-)
> Oliver
> 
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