From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
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To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Converting XML to Fixed Length Text Data
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:45:23 GMT

<xsl:variable name="pad1" select="' '"/>

<xsl:template match="child1">
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 <xsl:value-of select="substring($child1,string-length(.))"/>
</xsl:template>

and similarly the other children. (This doesn't do any error checking
for over-run, although that could be added.)

David

Original Message:
Ladies and Gents, I need some guidance .  I searched the archives and found
some info but it was not sufficient. Basically I want to convert an xml file
to a fixed length data file.  The following is a sample of what I am trying
to do

Position of data for output file:
field: child1     start 1    length 7
field: att1       start 12   length 5
field: child2     start 27   length 12
field: child3     start 39   length 15
field: att2       start 56   length 3

Input:
<parent att1="foo">
<child1>aChild</child1>
<child2>anotherChild</child2>
<child3 att2="bar">yetAnotherChild</child3>
</parent>

Output:
aChild     foo            anotherChildyetAnotherChild  bar

Thanks
Garvin Franco
garvin_franco@xxxxxxxxxxx