POSITION command ignored on eText template

Hi,
I'm building my first eText template (fixed position based) with a certain degree of success, but I cannot make XMLP respect the positions indicated in my template.
It seems that XMLP is considering the lenght of each field and then concatenates them one after the other (not even a space between them), ignoring the position that I indicated on the first column of the template (<POSITION> command).
Can you suggest me how to debug this problem?
Thanks!
Pablo

Hi,
Just in case anybody has the same problem, Oracle Support confirmed me that the POSITION column header has no effect on the output. It's just like the COMMENTS header.
XMLP UG is a little bit misleading regarding this, but that's how things are.
Cheers,
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