> From: abbouh [mailto:abbouh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:10 AM
> Subject:  repetition
> 
> 
> i want to know how i can repeat an instruction in xsl
> for example i want to display text "toto" n time
> whithout repeating
> <xsl:text>toto</xsl:text>   n time.
> thanks

XSLT doesn't have procedural loop counters, but you can use recursion to get
the same effect.  At its simplest:

<xsl:template name="text-loop">
  <xsl:param name="max-times" select="1"/>
  <xsl:param name="i" select="0"/>
  <xsl:if test="$i &lt; $max-times">  
    <xsl:text>toto </xsl:text>
    <xsl:call-template name="text-loop">
      <xsl:with-param name="max-times" select="$max-times"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i + 1"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Usage:

<xsl:call-template name="text-loop">
  <xsl:with-param name="max-times" select="5"/>
</xsl:call-template>

Output:

toto toto toto toto toto 

hth,
b.

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