You mean, truncate it to a certain number of words?
In XSLT 2.0, that's
tokenize($in, '\W')[position() = 1 to $n]
where $in is your input string and $n is the number of words.
It's a fair bit harder in XSLT 1.0 (most things are).
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Pease [mailto:mpease(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 13 March 2007 23:50
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] limit a string to a certain word count
Hello all -
  I'm a wee Java programmer who has been assigned a task 
that, as it turns out, requires XSL to complete.
  I don't know a thing about XSL.
  What I need is a function that will limit a string to a 
certain number of words.
  I guess what I'm asking for is a small miracle.  Any takers?
Thank you-
Matt
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