"Pettigrew, Nancy" wrote:
> 
> XML:
> <Consumer Comments="This is a test of the comments attribute."/>
> 
> I am trying to display only the first 10 characters of the Comments
> attribute shown above, but have not been successful using the substring
> function - probably just a syntax problem, but I'm working with very little
> documentation for xsl and am very new to it.  Argh.
> 
> Any suggestions?

<xsl:template match="Consumer">
  <xsl:value-of select="substring(@Comments,1,10)"/>
</xsl:template>

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