[FIXED] XSL left-right justification with Padding

Issue

Is there any standard template in XSLT 1.0 available which does justification and pad the field to max length?

Thanks, Prabhjot

Solution

Unfortunately XSLT does not comes with the padding function, the good part is that is very simple to do so as pointed by this blog post: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/padding.html

(Web archive version: http://web.archive.org/web/20171225234313/http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/padding.html )

For example if you want to right pad a 10 spaces string you can do:

<xsl:value-of 
 select="substring(concat($string, '          '), 1, 10))"/>

if you need a left pad you can change the order of the concat parameters as following:

<xsl:value-of 
 select="substring(concat('          ', $string), 1, 10))"/>

Notice that the string with spaces should contain the same amount of chars as your padding is needing, so if you want a 10 pad, you will need a 10 spaces string.

Answered By - mtrovo
Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (JavaFixing Admin)