Subject: RE: [xsl] substring for whole words. From: Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:59:20 +0200 |
Hi, > I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, but how do I get > substring-before() or substring() to not split something in the > middle of a word. What I mean is, given an xml snippet of: > > <foo> > <wibble>This is only a test but it is a really really long > one</wibble> > <wibble>This is a different test, right.</wibble> > </foo> > > How do I produce: > <ul> > <li>This is only a test</li> > <li>This is a different test</li> > </ul> > > I.e. Take the first five words as delimited by the whitespace? > Any Hints? Write a recursive template that tokenizes the string, and outputs both the tokens and delimiters, and stops after the fifth token is found. Dimitre's <http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/> might worth looking at if you're fed up writing the same recursive template for the gizillionth time. Cheers, Jarno - C-Drone-Defect: The Few XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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