<xsl:variable name="HISTORY" select="./@history" />

The result is a String like

abc^defg^ttt^bbb^ggg

I am tring to get like

abc
defg
ttt
bbb
ggg

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<xsl:variable name="HISTORY_BEFORE" select="substring-before($HISTORY,'^')" />
<xsl:variable name="HISTORY_AFTER" select="substring-after($HISTORY,'^')" />
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="string-length($HISTORY_BEFORE) > 0" >
        <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($HISTORY,'^')" />
        <br />
        <xsl:if test="string-length($HISTORY_AFTER) > 0">
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($HISTORY_AFTER,'^')" /><br />
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($HISTORY_AFTER,'^')" />
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="./@history" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Hi,

Please post some of the XML and someone can help.

Bones

I suspect an error in the code you haven't shown us - for example, the context might be wrong. Please show a complete (but small) XML source document and stylesheet, this is much easier to debug than a fragment.

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

<test>
<testdata history="aaa^bbb^ccc^ddd"></testdata>
</test>

-----------------------------------
 <xsl:variable name="HISTORY" select="../test/testdata/@history" />

<xsl:variable name="HISTORY_BEFORE" select="substring-before($HISTORY,'^')" />
<xsl:variable name="HISTORY_AFTER" select="substring-after($HISTORY,'^')" />
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="string-length($HISTORY_BEFORE) > 0" >
        <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($HISTORY,'^')" />
        <br />
        <xsl:if test="string-length($HISTORY_AFTER) > 0">
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($HISTORY_AFTER,'^')" /><br />
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($HISTORY_AFTER,'^')" />
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="./@history" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

<document>
    <testxml>
        <test1>
        <test1a>
                          <test>
                                 <testdata history="aaa^bbb^ccc^ddd"></testdata>
                          </test>
                         </test1a>
                </test1>
            </testxml>
</document>

Hi, You should use the tokenize function

tokenize(string,pattern)

something like

for $w in tokenize($History,'^') return $w

I am using version 1.0

is it working with that version?

As I said, the problem could well be that the context isn't set up correctly for your code to run. The fact that you haven't demonstrated the context suggests that you haven't understood its importance.

I'm also confused as to why you have shown two different versions of your source document, without any explanation.

As I said before, please provide a complete runnable example that demonstrates the problem, so we can tell you where you went wrong.

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