Hello all....

I have one news list page .....which shows the list of news aticles written ....

i am able to show each article in the list in news list page ....this is my code ....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:umbraco.contour="urn:umbraco.contour" xmlns:tagsLib="urn:tagsLib" xmlns:BlogLibrary="urn:BlogLibrary"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml
 umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes 
Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings 
Exslt.ExsltSets umbraco.contour tagsLib BlogLibrary ">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- The fun starts here -->
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
  <xsl:sort select="@updateDate" order="descending" />
 <!--  <h3 class="headline"> <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
      <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
    </a>
  </h3> -->
  <div id="newsArticle">
  <!--  <div
 id="newsImage"><xsl:value-of 
select="umbraco.library:ReplaceLineBreaks(image)" 
disable-output-escaping="yes"/></div> -->
    <div id="newsImage"><img src="{./image}" alt="" /></div>
    <div id="newscontentArea">
      <div id="newscontentHeader"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ReplaceLineBreaks(contentHeader)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></div>
      <div id="newscontentDate"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ShortDate(@updateDate, true(), ' - ')"/></div>
      <div><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ReplaceLineBreaks(article)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></div>   /* this is content */
    </div>
  </div>
</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Now want to show the content up to some extend only ie. say up to 50 characters only .....

how to do this with the above code ...?

i want to do some thing like this ....

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString($currentPage/article,60,' >>')"/>

but i am not able to do this in above code .....

I also want to add link to   ">>"  so that i can route user to full length article.