Subject: Re: [xsl] Splitting a string on word boundaries From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:32:50 -0800 (PST) |
See the message in xsl-list: "Re: Line Breaking for Text" http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg00651.html ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL "thei" <thei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:000101c2d11c$412e5480$fd4a8690@xxxxxx > Hello all, I've got what I think is a simple problem but I can't find a > solution. > > I am generating a RSS file and summarising the first 200 characters for > the output. > > The XML source <content> element contains only text (xs:string). > > The XSL is: > > <xsl:value-of > select="normalize-space(substring(content[not(@private)],1,200))"/> > > This can often cause words to become truncated at the end. I would much > rather have a way to output say the first 30 words, rather than the > first 200 characters. > > The full xsl is available at http://journal.the-i.org/xsl/rss091.xsl and > rss-imports.xsl and the output is http://journal.the-i.org/rss091.xml > > Thanks for any help :) > > Ned Martin > http://nedmartin.org/ > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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