xsl: How to select the first x number of characters in a node?

Question

I have the following node in a XML doc:

<node>This is some text.</node>

I want to select the first 10 characters of the text. How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can use the substring function to select the first 10 characters.

<xsl:value-of select="substring(node/text(),1,10)"/>

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Try this

substring(/node,1,10)

Reference for substring fn.