Or, if you go XQuery 3.0: $t := ' ' $line := $members || $t || $name ... Max Am 18. April 2012 11:46 schrieb Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>:

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Is this the state of the art for making tab aligned columns? concat($members," ",$id," ",$name...

Yes; you may as well enter an ordinary tab character instead of . Christian _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk