max lengt or else dots - How or what should i write? - html

Question

I want the script to show max 26 letters and if there is more I want it to make (...) <-- so that you can se there is more letters in the link.
First I put a bit of a script I have for another site containing a variable to do that, however it doesn't work in RSS:
{
temp.Add(titel);
count++;
string titel_kort = titel;
if (titel.Length > 26)
{
titel_kort = titel.Substring(0, 26) + "...";
}
}
And this is the script I want to integrate to:
#using System.Xml.XPath;
#using System.Xml;
#{
try
{
XmlTextReader udBrudRSS = new XmlTextReader("http://tidende.dk/rss.aspx");
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(udBrudRSS);
XmlNodeList rssItems = doc.SelectNodes("//item");
var count = 0;
foreach (XmlNode node in rssItems )
{
count++;
if (count > 3) { break; }
<div class="nyhedlink">- #node["title"].InnerText</div>
}
}
catch {}
}

Answer 1

You could something like this :
using (var webclient = new WebClient())
{
var data = webclient.DownloadData("http://tidende.dk/rss.aspx");
var oReader = new XmlTextReader(new MemoryStream(data));
var xml = XDocument.Load(oReader);
var values = xml.XPathSelectElements("//item").Take(3).Select(p => new
{
Link = p.XPathSelectElement("//link").Value,
Title = (p.XPathSelectElement("./title").Value.Length > 26) ?
p.XPathSelectElement("./title").Value.Substring(0, 26).Trim() + "..." :
p.XPathSelectElement("./title").Value.Trim()
});
foreach (var item in values)
{
<div class="nyhedlink">- #item.Title</div>
}
}
Sometimes is better use WebClient to make the petition instead of XmlTextReader see this question for a good explanation.