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

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    Truly tho, I'm a total XSL newbie & am looking for a handout.  :)

I don't think a forum like this is the best way of making your first few
"hello world" steps. Get yourself a book and spend a few hours with it, try
some of the exercises, then come and ask a specific question when you're
stuck.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> 
>   How might I make an xsl function for this & how would I call it?
> Anyone care to help?
> 
>    tokenize($in, '\W')[position() = 1 to $n]
> 
> Thanks --
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/13/07, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You mean, truncate it to a certain number of words?
> >
> > In XSLT 2.0, that's
> >
> > tokenize($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).
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthew Pease [mailto:mpease@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 13 March 2007 23:50
> > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [xsl] limit a string to a certain word count
> > >
> > > Hello all -
> > >
> > >   I'm a wee Java programmer who has been assigned a task 
> that, as it 
> > > turns out, requires XSL to complete.
> > >
> > >   I don't know a thing about XSL.
> > >
> > >   What I need is a function that will limit a string to a certain 
> > > number of words.
> > >
> > >   I guess what I'm asking for is a small miracle.  Any takers?
> > >
> > > Thank you-
> > > Matt