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  • Darryl Godden 145 posts 197 karma points
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 12:28
    Darryl Godden
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    Substring in XSLT

    Another day, another question...

    I've looked at various references and I believe this should work, but it does not:

    <xsl:value-of select='substring(data [@alias = "EventDescription"],1,20)' disable-output-escaping="yes" />

    I'm trying to shorten the field for display as it is rather lengthy. Can you help?

    TIA.

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  • Dirk De Grave 4541 posts 6021 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 12:37
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    Hi Darryl,

    Have you tried switching quotes/double quotes? If you're in a loop, it might also be best practice to include ./ before the data fragment, to make sure you're getting info from the current node in the loop

    <xsl:value-of select="substring(./data [@alias = 'EventDescription'],1,20)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

     

    Cheers,

    /Dirk

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  • Kim Andersen 1447 posts 2197 karma points MVP
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 12:52
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    Otherwise you could also try out the extension: umbraco.library:TruncateString

    You can use it like this:

    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(./data[@alias = 'EventDescription'], 20,'...')"/>

    This function cuts the string after 20 characters, and insert ... at the end of the line. It's actually pretty usefull. If the EventDescription-field is content from a text-editor it would be smart to combine it with another extension called stripHtml like this:

    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml(./data[@alias = 'EventDescription']), 20,'...')"/>

    This makes sure, that the truncateString doesn't break up a html-tag, like a link or so.

     

    /KIm A

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  • Darryl Godden 145 posts 197 karma points
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 14:08
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    That worked perfectly Kim, thank you!

    Sorry Dirk, I couldn't get yours to work...

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  • Kim Andersen 1447 posts 2197 karma points MVP
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 16:01
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    Any time Darryl...

    /Kim A

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  • Luis Soto 2 posts 22 karma points
    Oct 31, 2013 @ 20:13
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    Hi Guys Im newbie in xslt how can i split a text I mean i have a string "Ticket # 123456 was placed on 12/10/2013" i need only 123456

     

    Thanks

     

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  • Luis Soto 2 posts 22 karma points
    Oct 31, 2013 @ 20:17
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  • Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8791 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib
    Oct 31, 2013 @ 22:10
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    Hi Luis - welcome to the forum!

    You will likely get much better results if you post a new question instead of continuing in this thread, since this one is already marked as solved.

    /Chriztian

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