The answer depends greatly on whether you are using XSLT 1.0 or 2.0. (Like
many things, it's much easier in 2.0).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joga Singh Rawat [mailto:jrawat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 March 2009 08:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  substring after/substring before
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> Can I spilit a string into two parts by last space as 
> substring-before(., '
> 
> '[last()]) is not getting accurate result. 
> 
> 
> Input : 
> 
> A. B. C. Surname
> 
> 
> Output:
> 
> <fnm>A.</fnm>
> 
> <snm>B. C. Surname</snm>
> 
> 
> Required output
> 
> Output:
> 
> <fnm>A. B. C.</fnm>
> 
> <snm>Surname</snm>
> 
> 
> Anybody have any clue???
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ...JSR