limiting RSS records to 5

sbrennen · March 24th, 2009, 03:50 PM

Hi! I am new to XSLT and am using Dreamweaver to generate this code, which works great, except that I need to limit the number of records pulled from an RSS feed to 6. Can you tell me how/where in the code to do this? Any help greatly appreciated.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- DWXMLSource="http://live.psu.edu/tagrss/Research" --><!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet  [
    <!ENTITY nbsp   " ">
    <!ENTITY copy   "Â©">
    <!ENTITY reg    "Â®">
    <!ENTITY trade  "™">
    <!ENTITY mdash  "—">
    <!ENTITY ldquo  "“">
    <!ENTITY rdquo  "”"> 
    <!ENTITY pound  "Â£">
    <!ENTITY yen    "Â¥">
    <!ENTITY euro   "€">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/"><style type="text/css">
<xsl:comment>
.rss_title {
    font: bold 100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.rss_description {
    font: 90% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.rss_link {
    font: 80% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    text-decoration: none;
}
</xsl:comment>
</style>

  <xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">
    <span class="rss_title"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></span><br />
    <span class="rss_description"><xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></span>
    
            <a href="{../link}" target="_blank" class="rss_link">Read on...<br />
            <br />
</a>
  </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

mhkay · March 24th, 2009, 03:57 PM

<xsl:for-each select="(rss/channel/item)[position() < 6]">

sbrennen · March 24th, 2009, 04:35 PM

Do you happen to know why I'm not getting the correct link that corresponds with the title and description? URL from first link is repeating in all of the stories.

sbrennen · March 24th, 2009, 04:38 PM

Michael: Just figured out the last problem on my own. Thanks again for your quick answer!