str:align - left padding problem

using the simple XML file


<source>
<author>Adam Gutteridge</author>
</source>


and XSLT file


<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"
  xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
  extension-element-prefixes="str">

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(//author, substring('bbb---------------------eee', string-length(//author) + 1))"/>,
<xsl:value-of select="str:align(//author, 'bbb---------------------eee', 'left')"/>,
<xsl:value-of select="str:align(//author, 'bbb---------------------eee', 'center')"/>,
<xsl:value-of select="str:align(//author, 'bbb---------------------eee', 'right')"/>,
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


I get the following output, where the left padding is wrong using str:align (see the third line of the output). I am using xalan-java 2.6.0. To test that there were no underlying problems with xalan I created a left alignment statement that does work using concat and string-length directly.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Adam Gutteridge---------eee,
Adam Gutteridge------------eee,
bbb---Adam Gutteridge---eee,
bbb---------Adam Gutteridge,


The immediate solution is to use the concat/string-length directly whenever left aligned strings are required.
hope this is useful,

Kazan Glenn.

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