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Re: Cutting strings short.


Subject: Re: Cutting strings short.
From: Warren Hedley <w.hedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:00:56 -0400

"M.T. de Brauw" wrote:
>
> I would like to output a list of messagetitles and 2 lines of the actual
> message using XSL. Is it possible, using XSL, to cut off a string after say
> 75 characters?

See the substring() function in XPath

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-substring

You want something like

<xsl:value-of select="substring(text, 1, 75)" />

-- 
Warren Hedley


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