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> 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 $n] > > Thanks -- > Matt > > > > On 3/13/07, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You mean, truncate it to a certain number of words? > > > > In XSLT 2.0, that's > > > > tokenize($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@xxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: 13 March 2007 23:50 > > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: 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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