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Re: [xsl] limit a string to a certain word count

2007-03-13 17:21:46
Hi Michael -

  Thanks very much.

  Truly tho, I'm a total XSL newbie & am looking for a handout.  :)

 How might I make an xsl function for this & how would I call it?
Anyone care to help?

  tokenize($in, '\W')[position() = 1 to $n]

Thanks --
Matt



On 3/13/07, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
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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