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RE: Looping over characters in a string
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Looping over characters in a string
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:00:18 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> 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() <= string-length(tag)">
<xsl:text>X</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="tag"/>
Mike Kay
Software AG
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