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John,
Your question has a simple answer, but it also contains a possible "gotcha" that is potentially very important. At 01:33 PM 2/4/2005, you wrote: I imagine this is a common question and I am sure I could solve it; I am hoping someone can point me at something tested against similar requirements. If the result string is exactly as you've said, that is every substring delimited by "/" in the source is wrapped in "/item[@name='" and "']" and then spliced together, this is most easily achieved by a recursive string-chopping template (or possibly by string-replacement functionality in XSLT 2.0). Such templates for string-handling in XSLT 1.0 are widely documented in the FAQ, the archives to this list and elsewhere. But this is for converting *strings*, and the strings you have offered suggest that you may actually want to return *nodes* based on XPath (since the strings you've offered happen to be XPath expressions, which return nodes when resolved). This is a very different thing, and probably not reasonably achievable in a single pass in unextended XSLT. If this is what you want to do, tell us a bit more about why: there may be other ways of achieving your goal. Cheers, Wendell
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