Re: Selecting a certain amount of characters with XSL

Basically, as David Carlisle said, you're going to need the construction
you said you don't want in order to get the first 1000 characters of the
node:

<xsl:value-of select="(substring(.,1,1000)"/>

And then you're going to have to use the other resources of xslt to avoid
getting the first 1000 characters of each node.

Such as:
<xsl:for-each> if you really want to do this for all the text nodes, only
not all at once
or
you can use select the 3rd occurence of a node if you know that is the one
you want
or
you can put more structure in your xml and select based on that

etcetera

Rick Suiter




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