Truly tho, I'm a total XSL newbie & am looking for a handout. :)
I don't think a forum like this is the best way of making your first few
"hello world" steps. Get yourself a book and spend a few hours with it, try
some of the exercises, then come and ask a specific question when you're
stuck.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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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