Alessandro,

here is an example of some xslt i have written, with some explaining that you can use to expand...

first the code

<!-- The fun starts here -->

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">

    <div class="newsTeaser">
        <h4><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="./data[@alias='pageHeading']"/></a></h4>
        <xsl:variable name="shortText" select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(./data [@alias = 'bodyText'], '250', '')" />
        <xsl:value-of select="$shortText" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        <xsl:if test="string-length(./data [@alias = 'bodyText']) &gt; 250">
             <xsl:value-of select="concat('', '...&lt;/p&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </xsl:if>
    </div>
   
</xsl:for-each>

now some explaining :)

this is a snippet i used to list some news teaser text on the news home page...

i have my headline, the h4 tag with a link around it... you can duplicate this logic after the concat statment if you want.

so, first i am setting a variable of shortext equal to a truncated version of my main text area [bodyText]--which i am truncating to a length of 250 characters.

then i am outputting that truncated version-- the xsl value statment

now, if the value of bodyText was longer than my original truncation amount it will do a concat operation to add a dot,dot,dot to the end... and ALSO a closing paragraph tag :) now, i am gambling that it isn;t truncating in teh middle of a tag, but hey, i am willing to make that gamble to close out the opening paragraph tag.

so, if you wanted to... you could duplicate the h4 stuff i have, but make the text between the <a> tags read as Read More... llike this.

<a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">Read More</a>

hopefullly that gets you a start toward what you are wanting to do.

Bob,

many thanks for your rapid reply.

Let me try and see if I understood.:)

Hi

I don't understand how can I add Read More... link!

I have to create a macro then when I create an article how I can I use this macro?

Sina

Hi Sina and welcome to our :)

What is your scenario?

If you're using a read text editor you could add the read more link within it without having to define a macro for this purpose only.

You should probably also consider using a sentence for the read more link, which makes more sense than just the "Read more text"...Read more about what? It does not always make sense unless you have a visual context, which the Google bot does not have for instance or a visually impaired person. Oh well that was just a site note :)

/Jan

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