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trimming xml output by number of characters
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- Subject: trimming xml output by number of characters
- From: Matthew Haughey <matt at haughey dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:28:05 -0700
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
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=". > 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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