trimming xml output by number of characters

[Matthew Haughey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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