On 9 Jan., 12:56, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> michael.skovfo...@gmail.com 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:
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <xsl:variable name=3D"VarName">
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <xsl:copy-of select=3D"."/>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 </xsl:variable>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <xsl:value-of select=3D"substring($VarName, 1, =
20)"/>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <xsl:text>&#xD;</xsl:text>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <xsl:value-of select=3D"substring($VarName, 21,=
 40)"/>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <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/functi=
ons/serialize....
> If you want to parse a string with XML markup back into nodes then you
> can usehttp://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/parse.h=
tml
>
> --
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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Hi again,

I want a node like this:

<RmtInf><Ustrd>Invoices 123 and 321</Ustrd></RmtInf>

to be output like this:

SOMEINFO    <RmtInf><Ustrd>Invoices 123 a
OTHERINFO   nd 321</Ustrd></RmtInf>

I am using Visual Studio .Net to make the transformation.

Best,
Michael