Just use exp[1].

The item-at() function was removed many drafts ago because it was redundant:
you can get the Nth item in a sequence using SEQ[N]. In the rare cases where
that's inconvenient because it changes the evaluation context, you can use
subsequence(SEQ, N, 1).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjukta Mitra [mailto:sanmit27@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 January 2006 20:24
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Selecting the first item from a tokenized string
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to select the first item from a tokenized
> string. I was trying to use the item-at() function.But
> this seems to have been removed from Saxon and
> possibly also from XSLT 2 . Is there another function
> I could use to do this? Would really appreciate any
> help.
> 
> Thanks
> Sanjukta
> 
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