pad-string — Right-pads or left-pads a string out to a certain length
<xsl:template name="pad-string"> <xsl:param name="padChar" select="' '"/> <xsl:param name="leftRight">left</xsl:param> <xsl:param name="padVar"/> <xsl:param name="length"/> ... </xsl:template>
This function takes string padVar and
pads it out in the direction rightLeft to
the string-length length, using string
padChar (a space character by default) as
the padding string (note that padChar can
be a string; it is not limited to just being a single
character).
This function began as a copy of Nate Austin's
prepend-pad function in the Padding
Content section of Dave Pawson's XSLT
FAQ.