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    copied!<p>What you are asking is an XSLT <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>ellipsis</strong></a> generator.</p> <p>May be this <a href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect4/N10301.html#d16170e189" rel="nofollow noreferrer">xslt 1.0 template</a> might give you some idea:</p> <p>Here is the main gist of it:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:template match="text()" mode="label"&gt; &lt;xsl:param name="self-x"/&gt; &lt;xsl:param name="self-y"/&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="text" select="normalize-space(.)"/&gt; &lt;!-- a quick and dirty way to avoid problems with line breaks --&gt; &lt;!-- replace the select attribute with this call if you want to use a fancier way to escape whitespace characters: &lt;xsl:call-template name="escape-ws" &lt;xsl:with-param name="text" select="." / &lt;/xsl:call-template --&gt; &lt;use xlink:href="#text-box" transform="translate({$self-x} {$self-y})"/&gt; &lt;!-- text nodes are marked with a little box --&gt; &lt;text x="{$self-x + $writing-bump-over}" y="{$self-y - $writing-bump-up}" style="{$text-font-style}; stroke:none; fill:{$text-color}"&gt; &lt;xsl:text&gt;"&lt;/xsl:text&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="substring($text,1,$max-text-length)"/&gt; &lt;!-- truncate the text node to $max-text-length --&gt; &lt;xsl:if test="string-length($text) &amp;gt; $max-text-length"&gt; &lt;!-- add an ellipsis if necessary --&gt; &lt;xsl:text&gt;...&lt;/xsl:text&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;xsl:text&gt;"&lt;/xsl:text&gt; &lt;/text&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; </code></pre> <p>Note: </p> <ul> <li>you will need to replace the ellipsis by a link, but the main idea is there.</li> <li>this represents only a small extract of the <a href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect4/N10301.html#d16170e189" rel="nofollow noreferrer">all script</a></li> <li>you may not need everything in it: if you need "<code>&lt;use xlink:href="...</code>", you need to <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/web.svg/2004-01/msg00032.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">declare the xlink namespace</a></li> </ul>
 

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