Re: [xsl] Indent based on position()

[Greg Faron <gfaron at integretechpub dot com>]

At 09:10 AM 4/11/2002, you wrote:
><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
><xsl:output method="text"/>
><xsl:template match="/">
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="content/line"/>
></xsl:template>
><xsl:template match="line">
>  <!-- Concatenate with a bunch of dashes -->
>  <xsl:variable name="dashes" select="'---------------------'"/>
>  <!-- Take the number of dashes corresponding to the line's position 
> number -->
>  <xsl:value-of select="substring($dashes,1,position())"/>
>  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>  <!-- Carriage-return-->
>  <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
></xsl:template>
>
></xsl:stylesheet>

   Not commenting on the efficiency of this algorithm, the above will only 
work for a limited number of indentations (21 in this case).  If you're 
going to use this method, you'll need to conditionally grow the string as 
in Jeni's str:padding template, located at 
<http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/padding/str.padding.template.xsl>.



Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.



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