thanks for the assistance. here's what the working code looks like...

this allows me to call a template from my XSL that splits the last node of a sectioned document into two separate rows of a table, the top row is wider than the bottom, allowing for an image in the last TD of the bottom row. I'm sure there's probably a more economical way to do this, but I thought I'd post the code I came up with, for posterity sake.

<xsl:template name="lastBlah">
	<xsl:param name="leftStringLength"/>
	<xsl:param name="leftStringValue"/>
	<xsl:param name="topOrBot" />
		
		<xsl:if test="substring($leftStringValue,number($leftStringLength),1) != ' ' and $leftStringLength >0 ">
		

		
		<!-- recursive call -->
			<xsl:call-template name="lastBlah">
				<xsl:with-param name="leftStringLength" select="$leftStringLength - 1"/>
				<xsl:with-param name="leftStringValue" select="substring($leftStringValue,'1',number($leftStringLength)-1)" />
				<xsl:with-param name="topOrBot" select="$topOrBot"/>
			</xsl:call-template> 
		</xsl:if>
	
	<xsl:if test="substring($leftStringValue,number($leftStringLength),'1') = ' ' and $leftStringLength >0 ">
		<xsl:choose>
			<xsl:when test="$topOrBot=0">
				<xsl:value-of select="substring($leftStringValue,0,$leftStringLength)" />
			</xsl:when>
			<xsl:otherwise>
				<xsl:value-of select="substring(.,$leftStringLength)" />
			</xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:if>
		
</xsl:template>

heath deforrest allison
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