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> | </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!