Re: trimming xml output by number of characters

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Matthew

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<<xsl:template match="foo">

<<xsl:choose> 

<<xsl:when test="string-length(.) &gt; 25">

<<xsl:value-of select="concat(substring(.,1,25),'...')"

<</xsl:when>

<<xsl:otherwise><<xsl:value-of select="."<</xsl:otherwise> 

<</xsl:choose>

<</xsl:template>  





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Matthew Haughey wrote:


<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I have some xml describing things in a directory, and some have long 

> titles. I'm transforming with the MSXML parser on the server side to output 

> HTML, and I'd like to cut down titles longer than 25 characters, appended 

> with "..."

> 

> I think I can pattern match with something like this:

> 

> <<xsl:template match="foo">

>   <<xsl:if test=". &gt; 20"> (do something here, but I don't know what) 

> <</xsl:if>

> <</xsl:template>

> 

> but I don't know how to filter out the longer titles and shorten the output 

> for those. Anyone have any ideas?

> 

> thanks,

> Matt

> 

> 

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