# Xml data character limit

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-data-character-limit/198444>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 25, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-data-character-limit/198444 "2006-08-25T02:40:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![codemonkeypete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@codemonkeypete](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/codemonkeypete)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-data-character-limit/198444/1 "2006-08-25T02:40:56Z")

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I am needing to limit the charcters shown in a text field, where the data is retrieved from an xml node (ie: just show the first paragraph of an entry with … afterwards) anyone have the code for that handy?