I declared LotsofSpaces as below and it seems not working
    <xsl:variable name="lotsOfSpaces">
        <text> <text/>



OR JUST THE LINE TYPED WITH SPACE BAR, STILL NO LUCK

</xsl:variable>


I used striling-length, it's reading 0. i guess i need to pass as string or something. any help is appreciated

>I declared LotsofSpaces as below and it seems not working
    <xsl:variable name="lotsOfSpaces">
        <text> <text/>
    </xsl:variable>

Whitespace text nodes in a stylesheet are stripped out. You want

<xsl:variable name="lotsOfSpaces" select="' ... '"/>

Also, don't do

<xsl:with-param name="x">
  <xsl:value-of select="y"/>
</xsl:with-param>

XSLT doesn't have to be as verbose as that! Instead write

<xsl:with-param name="x" select="y"/>

It's a lot faster as well.


Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

> Is there anyway we can pass one more param as format type

Yes of course. You can pass any parameters that you like. Or you can have multiple functions/templates for the different types/formats.

But I'm getting the impression that you're thinking aloud about your program design: if you have a specific question or problem about XSLT, please ask it. We're not here to design or write your code for you.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Np, no designes involved. I tried to pass one more param for format as well, i am still getting errors. That's just to make it generic template. It just popped up in my mind, but nothing more.

i owe you a big one, not sure how can i payback. But it really helped me to output something i would like to see. Thanks for your help

I promise will continue only with the problems and not the designs. Anyways i am not that kind of expert in my opinion, As you can see my idiot coding above

Once again thanks a bunch, will come back later with more questions, not that i am not working to learn at all. I am breaking my head all the time.

>i am still getting errors

Then PLEASE, show us what you did and show us the errors. That's a much better way of making progress than to ask us to solve the problem from first principles.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference