Hello,
I have a problem I am trying to solve which I hope someone can help. I have
the below xml data. I want to review the combined length and then
make sure when I transform the data to a .txt file that only 240char of the
combined TextLine data is written to the output.

I have found that I can get the total length of the TextLine data with the
string-length() function.
<xsl:variable name="lengthtest" select="."></xsl:variable>

Length is:<xsl:value-of select="string-length($lengthtest)"/>


But am having trouble triming the TextLine data to output only 240 char in
Total for all Mark Packages. I tried sub-string(var,1,240) but it is only
trimming each line_no's text. Can someone help point me in the correct
direction?


<Mark_Packages>
<TextLine line_no="1">Let&apos;s see how long this will work with line
number one and if I need to see how long this one is to strip off part of
the data.</TextLine>
<TextLine line_no="2">Then I am on Line #2 now and I want to see what the
length is here. I keep typing and this should be a good test</TextLine>
<TextLine line_no="3">So then I am</TextLine>
<TextLine line_no="4"> on Line 3 and I keep typing, now I will
stop.</TextLine>
</Mark_Packages>

Thanks,
Mary

substring(/, 1, 240)


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

"Mary Mormann" <mmormann> wrote in message
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Dimitre,
This was so Easy, why didn't I think of this. It works now.
Thanks,
Mary

"Dimitre Novatchev" <dimitren> wrote in message
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