stripping a text string to one character

[greenday45]

hello...I am a complete noob to xslt and I need to know how to take a string of text and output it so only the first character is output. I've looked all over the web but I must not be searching for the right thing...Please help!!!!

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

For example if you want to output the first character of the string value of the element elem you can use substring(elem, 1, 1) in an XPath expression (the select, test, etc. attributes). If you have a variable var that binds to the string you must use substring($var, 1, 1). Without knowing more about your input and output I cannot give you more help.


Regards,
Sorin