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This is in XSLT 2<br />
<a href="http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200305/post90610.html" rel="ugc">http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200305/post90610.html</a><br />
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This is in XSLT 1<br />
<a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg01089.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg01089.html</a><br />
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For more ref:<br />
Look at these for details and examples<br />
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<a href="http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/t.72.html" rel="ugc">http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/t.72.html</a><br />
<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187322" rel="ugc">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187322</a><br />
<a href="http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=xml&seqNum=41" rel="ugc">http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=xml&seqNum=41</a>&nbsp;<br />
<a href="http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/x.7205.html" rel="ugc">http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/x.7205.html</a>
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This is in XSLT 2
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200305/post90610.html [http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200305/post90610.html]

This is in XSLT 1
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg01089.html [http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg01089.html]

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For more ref:
Look at these for details and examples

http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/t.72.html [http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/t.72.html]
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187322 [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187322]
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=xml&seqNum=41 [http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=xml&seqNum=41] 
http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/x.7205.html [http://www.xmlscript.org/docs/x.7205.html]

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I am trying to 'trim' the value of an element to 256 characters, something like:<br />
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&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;trim(., '256')&quot;/&gt;<br />
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I just can't remember what the function is called...<br />
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Thanks.
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I am trying to 'trim' the value of an element to 256 characters, something like:

<xsl:value-of select="trim(., '256')"/>

I just can't remember what the function is called...

Thanks.

'Trim' function in XSLT

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).