XSL template to split string

Finally came up with a xslt template that would split a delimited string into substrings.

I don’t claim it’s the smartest script, but surely solves my problem.

Stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:for-each select="Paths/Item"> <xsl:call-template name="SplitText"> <xsl:with-param name="inputString" select="Path"/> <xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="Delimiter"/> </xsl:call-template> <br/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="SplitText"> <xsl:param name="inputString"/> <xsl:param name="delimiter"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($inputString, $delimiter)"> <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($inputString,$delimiter)"/> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping = "no"> </xsl:text> <xsl:call-template name="SplitText"> <xsl:with-param name="inputString" select="substring-after($inputString,$delimiter)"/> <xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="$delimiter"/> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$inputString = ''"> <xsl:text></xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="$inputString"/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

XML file (to be transformed) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="textSpliter.xslt"?> <Paths>   <Item>     <Path>C:\ProgramFiles\SomeWierdSoftware</Path>     <Delimiter>\</Delimiter>   </Item> </Paths>

Output: C: ProgramFiles SomeWierdSoftware

Hope it is useful.