RE: count element content length

Lainaus Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx:

> Heppa,
> 
> > Is there some method to count the elements content length and when 
> > for example the 20th character is met, then it would stop showing 
> > the rest and put ... after that. Because of my lowsy english, here
> > is one example:
> > 
> > elements content:
> > <Subject id="0000000002">Chattaamaan city chattiin ke klo 12</Subject>
> > 
> > the result should be:
> > <p>Chattaamaan city cha...</p>
> 
> <xsl:template match="Subject">
>   <p>
>     <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring(., 1, 20),'...')" />
>   </p>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> But you might want to consider breaking the string at word boundary

You are right, but I am not at that level yet =)
But hey! If I do like Santtu suggested, the result is a bit wrong since
it adds "..." also to elements that are shorter than 20 characters. What to do?

Cheers Jarkko

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Santtu
> 
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> 
> 



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