Utah Ingersoll wrote:
> 
> Is there a function in XSLT which obtains the position of the last
> occurrence of a string within another string?

Not in standard XSLT, but the XSLT Standard Library
(http://xsltsl.sf.net/)
has templates which will do what you want.  In particular,
see str:substring-after-last (http://xsltsl.sf.net/string.html)

HTHs,
Steve Ball

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