Doug wrote:

> I'm using XSLT to convert an XML document into a text file for
> processing on our mainframe.  I've got everything working fine except
> for one issue.
> 
> One of the elements returned can contain a large amount of data (2K+)
> in size.  Here's an example:
> 
> <jurisdictionssearched display="yes">Alaska Courts,Arizona
> Corrections,Arizona Courts,Arkansas Courts,California Court
> Index,Connecticut Corrections,Connecticut Courts,Connecticut Traffic
> Court,District of Columbia Corrections,Florida Broward County,Florida
> Corrections,Florida Duval County,Florida Palm Beach County,Florida
> Pinellas County,Florida Suwannee County,Foreign National,Georgia
> Corrections,Idaho Corrections,Illinois Archived Corrections,Illinois
> Cook County,Illinois Corrections,Indiana Corrections,Iowa
> Corrections,Kansas Corrections,Kansas Sedgwick County,Kentucky
> Corrections,Maine Corrections,Michigan Corrections,Minnesota
> Corrections,Minnesota Courts,Mississippi Corrections,Mississippi Hinds
> County,Missouri Corrections,Montana Corrections,Multi-State Sex And
> Violent Offender,Nebraska Corrections,Nevada Archived
> Corrections,Nevada Corrections,New Jersey Archived Corrections,New
> Jersey Corrections,New Jersey Courts,New York Corrections,North
> Carolina Corrections,North Carolina Courts,Ohio Corrections,Oklahoma
> Corrections,Oregon Clackamas County,Oregon Columbia County,Oregon Coos
> County,Oregon Corrections,Oregon Deschutes County,Oregon Douglas
> County,Oregon Hood County,Oregon Jackson County,Oregon Josephine
> County,Oregon Klamath County,Oregon Lane County,Oregon Lincoln
> County,Oregon Linn County,Oregon Marion County,Oregon Multnomah
> County,Oregon Umatilla County,Oregon Washington County,Oregon Yamhill
> County,Rhode Island Courts,South Carolina Corrections,Tennessee
> Corrections,Tennessee Courts,Texas Courts,Texas Sex Offender
> Registry,Utah Corrections,Utah Courts,Virginia Courts,Virginia Fairfax
> Circuit Court,Virginia Fairfax County Archived District Court,Virginia
> Traffic Courts,Washington CLJ Courts,Washington Corrections,Washington
> Superior Courts,Wisconsin Corrections,Wisconsin
> Courts</jurisdictionssearched>
> 
> I'm not fluent in XML/XSLT so the way I work with stuff is pretty
> basic.  Is there a way to break this mass up into separate lines (CRLF
> delimited) of a particular length, say 80 bytes long - could be 100,
> 256, whatever.  Whether it breaks in the middle of a word doesn't
> matter.  Once it's broken up, I can rebuild it on the mainframe.  The
> line length is an issue.  I'd like to keep it under 500 bytes if
> possible.

XSLT/XPath works on characters not bytes. You can use XPath functions 
like substring to break up a string into smaller parts.

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	Martin Honnen
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