Re: [xsl] attribute length

[Dimtre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may want to look here:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg00651.html

The "str-split-to-words" template from FXSL can be used to achieve this.

Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:28:46 -0400, Russ Little
<russ.little@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am attempting to use logic to determine the length of an attribute, but I'm unable to find anything useful enough to work.
> 
> If I have the following:
> 
> <CAT NAM="This attribute is meant to be so extremely long that I must force it into multiple cells on a web page"/>
> 
> What I want to do is take the NAM attribute, and put the first 35 characters into a cell.  Directly below it, I want to generate another cell with two spaces followed by the next 33 characters.  I want to generate a new cell directly below the previous one, every 33 characters after the initial 35, and each should have two spaces in front.  This basic logic would produce the following:
> 
> This attribute is meant to be so ex
>  tremely long that I must force it
>  into multiple cells on a web page
> 
> The tricky part is, once I count to 35 characters (or 33 depending on if it is the first cell or not), I need to verify the data is being separated at a space.  In the previous example, the word "extremely" is not separated smoothly.  The final result should actually be:
> 
> This attribute is meant to be so
>  extremely long that I must force
>  it into multiple cells on a web
>  page
> 
> How can I use logic to not only determine the length of the attribute, but depending upon that length, separate the data out into multiple cells on a web page?
> 
> Russ Little
> Field Engineer