Working with Perch and RightMove .blm format feed

Currently, I have this for my data-feed.html template. My main issue at the moment is generating the appropriate number of blank items for Features and Images (max 10 allowed in each case) when there are less than the max number.

<meta charset="utf-8">
<perch:before>#HEADER#
VERSION : 3i
EOF : '|'
EOR : '~'

#DEFINITION#
AGENT_REF|HOUSE_NAME_NUMBER|STREET_NAME|OS_TOWN_CITY|OS_REGION|
ZIPCODE|COUNTRY_CODE|FEATURE1|FEATURE2|FEATURE3|FEATURE4|FEATURE5|
FEATURE6|FEATURE7|FEATURE8|FEATURE9|FEATURE10|SUMMARY|DESCRIPTION|
CREATE_DATE|UPDATE_DATE|BRANCH_ID|STATUS_ID|BEDROOMS|PRICE|
PRICE_QUALIFIER|NEW_HOME_FLAG|PROP_SUB_ID|DISPLAY_ADDRESS|
PUBLISHED_FLAG|LET_DATE_AVAILABLE|LET_BOND|LET_TYPE_ID|LET_FURN_ID|
LET_RENT_FREQUENCY|TRANS_TYPE_ID|DEVELOPMENT_NAME|
MEDIA_IMAGE_00|MEDIA_IMAGE_01|MEDIA_IMAGE_02|MEDIA_IMAGE_03|
MEDIA_IMAGE_04|MEDIA_IMAGE_05|MEDIA_IMAGE_06|MEDIA_IMAGE_07|
MEDIA_IMAGE_08|MEDIA_IMAGE_09|MEDIA_VIRTUAL_TOUR_00|~
</perch:before>

#DATA#
<perch:content id="propertyid" />|<perch:content id="propertyname" type="text" /> |STREET_NAME |<perch:content id="town" type="text" />|<perch:content id="province" type="select" />|<perch:content id="country" type="select" />

<perch:if exists="featureslist">
    <perch:repeater id="featureslist">
    <perch:if exists="feature">|<perch:content id="feature" />
    <perch:if id="perch_item_index" match="lte" value="10"><perch:after>|</perch:after>
</perch:if></perch:if></perch:repeater><perch:else>|</perch:else>
</perch:if>

<perch:content id="description" type="textarea" editor="redactor" html="true" chars="197" append="..." />|<perch:content id="description" type="textarea" editor="redactor" html="true" label="Main Description" />|2008-03-16 21:29:36|2008-03-15 16:28:36|9054|STATUS_ID|<perch:content id="bedrooms" type="text" />|<perch:content id="price" type="text" />||||<perch:content id="propertyname" type="text" />, STREET_NAME, <perch:content id="town" type="text" />, <perch:content id="province" type="select" />, <perch:content id="country" type="select" />|PUBLISHED_FLAG||||||||

<perch:if exists="images">
    <perch:repeater id="images">
    <perch:if id="perch_item_index" match="lte" value="10">https://www.domain.com<perch:content id="image" type="image" />|</perch:if>
    </perch:repeater>
    <perch:else>|</perch:else>
</perch:if>||~

Oh, my mistake. I'll recode it and repost.

Have just been told that RightMove are developing an .xml feed to replace .blm format "in a few months" so this work is being put on hold for the moment. I may have to revisit it if the RM thing is delayed. Even with that and correct <perch:else /> syntax, I cannot see how to output the correct number of blank items though.

Yes, I can see that

<perch:if>
value here| 
<perch:else />
|
</perch:if>

with, for example, 10 separate text or image fields, would give me what I want. Cannot see how to do it with repeater though.

Oh hang on a minute....

Revised code for the image section of my template:

<perch:if exists="images">
    <perch:repeater id="images">
    <perch:if id="perch_item_index" match="lte" value="10">|https://www.domain.com<perch:content id="image" type="image" /><perch:else />|</perch:if>
    </perch:repeater>
</perch:if>

So far, this seems to be working correctly (ahem). Is the above what you would do?

Have done some more testing. It works to the extent that there are images in the repeater (of course). What I mean is, if there are five images in the repeater, and I use

<perch:if id="perch_item_index" match="lte" value="2">

the output is two images and three | symbols.

What I need to do though is output 10 values in total. In the above case, this would mean two images and eight | symbols. Still thinking on that...