Question

is any way to create function create wanted spaces in the output, because i was keep hot coding were ever i required space <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text >, kindly suggest a function to generate a space based on the passed parameter,please advice

Answer 1

You may be looking at recursive template. Something like this:

<xsl:template name="WriteSpaces">
   <xsl:param name="count" />
   <xsl:if test="$count &gt; 0">
     <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
     <xsl:call-template name="WriteSpaces">
       <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count - 1" />
     </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Notice that invoking this would actually pollute your code even more than just putting spaces directly. For static content I would probably just use text. For dynamic content (i.e. if you want <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:text> </xsl:text>) I would use concat() function as it does not limit the number of parameters – so you could code above just as <xsl:value-of select="concat(' ', ., ' ')" />.