suppose here i'm getting my attribute value...
<xsl:if test="local-name() = 'TriggerText'">
                        <tr height="22"><td class="nodeprop">
                           <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
                           </td><td class="nodevalue">
                            <xsl:value-of select="."/> </td></tr>
                        </xsl:if>
here i'm getting one attribute value like this......
&amp;#10;-- 12.08.97 K.W&ouml;rn - Neue Felder aufgenommen Tarifart, Bewertungsstichtag&amp;#10;-- 16.12.02 T. Loeken - CHR 7614: TrgPreUpdate TAR, Verkn&uuml;pfung korrigiert&amp;#10;-- 10.01.03 T. Loeken - CHR 7402: Vertikale Ausrichtung der

now i need to split it when ever i will get &amp;#10;..
so for that i need to store the value first then i have to split and display...but with the 'substring-before' and 'substring-after' i can only split the value in two part..may be..do i have to do a recursion..could u pls tell me how to store the value and how to do recursion...with the syntax those r very new to me...thnx

This kind of thing is much easier if you use XSLT 2.0, which has regular expression support, but if you are forced to use XSLT 1.0 you need to do recursion. Look at the string-handling templates such as str:tokenize at www.exslt.org for examples (or in a good XSLT textbook)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

i have seen the link ..but i'm not getting it..can u pls give a working xml and xsl combination...thnx u for help

how to handle it by xslt2.0....if it is easier in xslt2.0 i have to go for that..can u give me the syntax..

my java transformer also does't support xslt 2.0

XSLT has a function tokenize() which uses regular expressions to split a value into a sequence of strings.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

This is a good site for reference:

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp

also this book:

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...764569090.html