michael.skovfoged@g... wrote:

> I want to transform nodes into a file with a maximum linewidth.
> Therefore I need to have the output result of copy-of into a variable
> and then use substring to output a specific number of characters on
> each line. I have tried:
> 
>             <xsl:variable name="VarName">
>                 <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>             </xsl:variable>
>             <xsl:value-of select="substring($VarName, 1, 20)"/>
>             <xsl:text>&#xD;</xsl:text>
>             <xsl:value-of select="substring($VarName, 21, 40)"/>
>             <xsl:text>&#xD;</xsl:text>
> 
> But this does not give the nodenames etc. and I can understand why as
> the variable contains the node.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?

I don't understand what you want to achieve. substring operates on 
string values, whether you pass in a variable or some other expression 
does not matter.

If you want to operate on the markup of nodes then you first need to 
serialize a node, Saxon (an XSLT 2.0 processor) has an extension 
function for that:
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/serialize.html
If you want to parse a string with XML markup back into nodes then you 
can use
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/parse.html



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