Hi Jarno,
Thanks. It works. I am going with the template approach. Since I am new to this
XSL stuff, shall I know the resources (may be text book) to learn XSL properly.

Regards,
Selva

Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > have one issue. In
> > your suggestion you had given it to get the substring after
> > the FIRST occurrence
> > of the new line character, of preceding element. I would like
> > to get the
> > substring after the LAST occurrence of the new line
> > character.  It would give me
> > the white spaces only, in my case. It would be a great help,
>
> <xsl:template name="after-last-linefeed">
>   <xsl:param name="text" select="preceding::text()[1]" />
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="contains($text, '&#xA;')">
>       <xsl:call-template name="after-last-linefeed">
>         <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, '&#xA;')"
> />
>       </xsl:call-template>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:value-of select="$text" />
>     </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Or write an extension function for
>
> substring-after(exf:reverse(preceding::text()[1]), '&#xA;')
>
> Jarno
>
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