xsl how to split strings

Question

I want to split an address on semicolons     into rows separated by  lt br   gt    e g  if address 123 Elm Street  I want to output 123 Elm Street   but if address 123 Elm Street PO Box 222  I want to output   123 Elm Street lt br   gt PO Box 222   and if address 123 Elm Street PO Box 222 c o James Jones  I want to output  123 Elm Street lt br   gt PO Box 222 lt br   gt c o James Jones   Is there a way to do this   probably easy but I m not that familiar with XSLT   The plain XSL selector is    lt xsl value-of select  address   gt    and I would like to modify this XSLT fragment to split on semicolon     update  Apparently the answer involves the use of  lt xsl call-template gt  and the functions substring-before   and substring-after     But I m a beginner to XSLT and I could really use some help for how to do this

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If your XSLT processor supports EXSLT  you can use str tokenize  otherwise  the link contains an implementation using functions like substring-before

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I  Plain XSLT 1 0 solution   This transformation    lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0   xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform  gt    lt xsl output omit-xml-declaration  yes  indent  yes   gt     lt xsl template match  text    name  split  gt     lt xsl param name  pText  select      gt     lt xsl if test  string-length  pText   gt      lt xsl if test  not  pText     gt       lt br   gt      lt  xsl if gt      lt xsl value-of select       substring-before concat  pText             gt      lt xsl call-template name  split  gt       lt xsl with-param name  pText  select        substring-after  pText         gt      lt  xsl call-template gt     lt  xsl if gt    lt  xsl template gt   lt  xsl stylesheet gt    when applied on this XML document    lt t gt 123 Elm Street PO Box 222 c o James Jones lt  t gt    produces the wanted  corrected result   123 Elm Street lt br   gt PO Box 222 lt br   gt c o James Jones   II  FXSL 1  for XSLT 1 0    Here we just use the FXSL template str-map  and do not have to write recursive template for the 999th time     lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0   xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform  xmlns f  http   fxsl sf net   xmlns testmap  testmap  exclude-result-prefixes  xsl f testmap   gt      lt xsl import href  str-dvc-map xsl   gt       lt testmap testmap  gt       lt xsl output omit-xml-declaration  yes  indent  yes   gt       lt xsl template match     gt        lt xsl variable name  vTestMap  select  document       testmap   1    gt        lt xsl call-template name  str-map  gt          lt xsl with-param name  pFun  select   vTestMap   gt          lt xsl with-param name  pStr  select           123 Elm Street PO Box 222 c o James Jones    gt        lt  xsl call-template gt      lt  xsl template gt        lt xsl template name  replace  mode  f FXSL           match    namespace-uri      testmap    gt         lt xsl param name  arg1   gt          lt xsl choose gt          lt xsl when test  not  arg1       gt           lt xsl value-of select   arg1   gt          lt  xsl when gt          lt xsl otherwise gt  lt br   gt  lt  xsl otherwise gt         lt  xsl choose gt       lt  xsl template gt   lt  xsl stylesheet gt    when this transformation is applied on any XML document  not used   the same  wanted correct result is produced   123 Elm Street lt br  gt PO Box 222 lt br  gt c o James Jones   III  Using XSLT 2 0   lt xsl stylesheet version  2 0   xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform  gt    lt xsl output omit-xml-declaration  yes  indent  yes   gt     lt xsl template match  text    gt     lt xsl for-each select  tokenize         gt      lt xsl sequence select      gt      lt xsl if test  not position   eq last     gt  lt br   gt  lt  xsl if gt     lt  xsl for-each gt    lt  xsl template gt   lt  xsl stylesheet gt    when this transformation is applied on this XML document    lt t gt 123 Elm Street PO Box 222 c o James Jones lt  t gt    the wanted  correct result is produced   123 Elm Street lt br   gt PO Box 222 lt br   gt c o James Jones

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