Re: [xsl] limit a string to a certain word count

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay 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).
>   
Depends if your 1.0 parser supports str:tokenize (a EXSLT function). If 
it does, then it not a "fair bit harder" but it will be "a wee bit 
harder" :)

See here:

http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/tokenize/index.html

I think Xalan supports this function if you are using it.



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Kamal Bhatt