you could try the EXSLT version of tokenize;

http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/tokenize/index.html

hth, Jim Fuller

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Farrukh Najmi
<farrukh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Glad I am not going crazy after all ;-)
>  I ended up using the following to tokenize a QName into prefix component
>  and local-name component:
>
>       <xsl:variable name='binding-prefix'
>  select="substring-before(@binding, ':')"/>
>       <xsl:variable name='binding-local-name'
>  select="substring-after(@binding, ':')"/>
>
>  Thanks again Mukul for your terrific help.
>
>
>
>  Mukul Gandhi wrote:
>  > I suspect, you are using the Xalan bundled with JDK 5. It might have
>  > some bug, if what you are reporting is true.
>  >
>  > With Xalan-J 2.7.1, I get the result fine.
>  >
>  > PS: For Xalan-J specific questions, I suggest, you can join the
>  > mailing list,  xalan-j-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The instructions to
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>  > http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/contact_us.html
>  >
>  > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Farrukh Najmi
>  > <farrukh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >
>  >>  In my style sheet I am using the following fragment that uses the xalan
>  >>  extension function named tokenize:
>  >>
>  >>       <xsl:for-each select="xalan:tokenize('prefix:namespace', ':')">
>  >>         <token>
>  >>           <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>  >>         </token>
>  >>       </xsl:for-each>
>  >>
>  >>  What I expected is the following output:
>  >>
>  >>  <token>
>  >>   prefix
>  >>  </token>
>  >>  <token>
>  >>   namespace
>  >>  </token>
>  >>
>  >>  Instead what I get is:
>  >>
>  >>  <token>
>  >>   prefixnamespace
>  >>  </token>
>  >>
>  >>  Can anyone please clue me in to why that is happening? Thanks.
>  >>
>  >>  ps: Many thanks Mukul for your helpful answer to the WSDL namespace map
>  >>  question. I will report back on my experience with that later.
>  >>
>  >>
>
>
>  --
>  Regards,
>  Farrukh Najmi
>
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