Use the str:tokenize extension (www.exslt.org, or natively available in
some processors), and select the first five tokens.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> James Cummings
> Sent: 10 March 2003 12:48
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  substring for whole words.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, but how do I get
> substring-before() or substring() to not split something in 
> the middle of a word.  What I mean is, given an xml snippet of:
> 
> <foo>
> <wibble>This is only a test but it is a really really long 
> one</wibble> <wibble>This is a different test, right.</wibble> </foo>
> 
> How do I produce:
> <ul>
> <li>This is only a test</li>
> <li>This is a different test</li>
> </ul>
> 
> I.e. Take the first five words as delimited by the 
> whitespace? Any Hints?
> 
> Many Thanks,
> James Cummings
> 
> 
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