Displaying only the first 5 articles

[Burt Lewis]

Hi,

I'm using an ASP script and an xsl file to display the feed from
Boston.com on a web page.

http://www.boston.com/tools/rss/

It works nicely but I am having trouble limiting the number of
articles (5)displayed on the page. Right now I get all articles and
want to be able to choose how many that are shown.

Appreciate any help.

Here is the xsl file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xslutput method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<table border="1" width="600" align="center">
<tr><td valign="top" align="center" class="title" bgcolor="silver" >
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='channel']/*[local-name()='link']"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">
<xsl:text>top</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='channel']/*[local-name()='title']"/>
</a>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="//*[local-name()='item']">
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='link']"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">
<xsl:text>top</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='title']"/>
</a>
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</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</td></tr>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

 

[Janwillem Borleffs]

It works nicely but I am having trouble limiting the number of
articles (5)displayed on the page. Right now I get all articles and
want to be able to choose how many that are shown.

Assuming that the following snippet is the one that produces the articles,
you could change:

<xsl:for-each select="//*[local-name()='item']">

Into :

<xsl:for-each select="//*[local-name()='item' and position() &lt; 6]">


JW

 

[Burt Lewis]

Excellent, exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks!