Help with XSLT - counting Number of characters in the previous para 1

[noyes99]

XSLT newbie here. I want to accomplish the following. If paragraph is the second one, and it has less than 200 characters, i want to display the next one.

Here is what I have

<xsl:if test="count(preceding-sibling:) = 2">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</p>
</xsl:if>

How do i add the condition for the preceeding para to have less than 200 characters. What would that condition look like?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[flumpy]

Try using the string-length function like this:

"string-length(preceding-sibling:) &lt; 200"


you'll need to "and" it with the statement if you can.

Rgds,

Matt

 

[noyes99]

Thanks, this is helpful. Another question, how do I find the length of current paragraph.

ie, what replaces string-length(XXX).

 

[noyes99]

thanks. it worked.

 

[flumpy]

so did you figure it out? (the "what replaces string-length(xxx)" question?) or should I try to elloborate?

If you need me to go into it, some more of your code would be good to see what context you are in when the condition executes.

Cheers

Matt

 

[noyes99]

Thanks Matt I was able to figure it out. For the records, I needed to use something like

string-length(preceding-sibling:[1]) &lt; 200

to make sure I was going the the immediately preceeding sibling.

Thanks

-N