Thank you all, gurus.  All the methods you suggested
works.  Currently, I used a
"substring-after(substring-after(substring-after('text_string_here',
'.'),'.'),'.')" since it is sure that there are only 3
dots.

Yan


--- Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello yan bai!
> 
> Recursive substring-after() ?
> 
> ---
> Oleg Tkachenko,
> Multiconn International, Israel 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of yan bai
> > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:29 PM
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  the last substring
> > 
> > 
> > I have an element like:
> > <elem>xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxx.1234</elem>
> > 
> > 
> > I know substring-before() will read the value
> before
> > the first '.'.
> > 
> > I wonder how I can read the value after the last
> '.',
> > namely 1234.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Yan
> > 
> > 
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