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Marrow wrote: > Wow, and you want that in one XPath expression? Assuming the current > context node (or text node thereof) is the sentence and that $break is the > desired position (e.g. 300) something like... > > concat(substring(.,1,$break), > substring-before(substring(.,$break+1,string-length(.) * > not(substring(.,$break,1) = '.') ),'.'), > substring(.,$break+1,string-length(.) * > not(contains(substring(.,$break+1),'.'))), > substring('.',1,1 * (not(substring(.,$break,1) = '.') or > not(contains(.,'.'))))) Scary! :) -- Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP] http://blog.tkachenko.com

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