How to hack MySQL GROUP_CONCAT to fetch a limited number of rows?

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Published on 2009-10-05T21:30:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 12:28 UTC
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I somehow need this feature,but MySQL doesn't support it at this moment.

I'm using GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT(...)) to generate a xml-like stuff.

But when the size exceeds the limit,the xml is just broken!

So I have to somehow make it only retrieve 5 rows !

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