Question

I have an XSL file which has a for-each loop in it and I am using an EXSLT processor to give some added functionality (namely the string padding).

what I want to be able to do is pad out all fields so they are the length of the longest record for that field. For example, for each name to be as long as the longest name, and then for each record number to be padded as long as the longest record number.

Hope I have explained this okay.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

<xsl:variable name="maxLength">
  <xsl:for-each select="name">
    <xsl:sort select="string-length(.)" data-type="number" />
    <xsl:if test="postion() = last()">
      <xsl:value-of select="string-length(.)" />
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>