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    copied!<p>I have an XSLT file that is rendering an HTML page, I am trying to split the string by using <code>;</code> as the delimiter and then adding line breaks every EVEN break. I have my code below, it doesn't seem to work, the line breaks don't appear:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;td width="50%" nowrap="nowrap"&gt; &lt;xsl:call-template name="split-parent" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt; .... &lt;xsl:template match="STUDENT_DETAILS/PARENT" name ="split-parent"&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="splitParentsVar"&gt; &lt;xsl:call-template name="add-line-breaks"&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="stringToBreak" select="STUDENT_DETAILS/PARENT"/&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="isEven" select="0"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt; &lt;/xsl:variable&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="$splitParentsVar"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template name="add-line-breaks"&gt; &lt;xsl:param name="stringToBreak"/&gt; &lt;xsl:param name ="isEven" /&gt; &lt;xsl:if test ="$isEven='1'"&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="concat($stringToBreak,'&amp;#xa;')"/&gt; &lt;xsl:if test="substring-after($stringToBreak,';')!=''"&gt; &lt;xsl:call-template name="add-line-breaks"&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="stringToBreak" select="substring-after($stringToBreak,';')"/&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="isEven" select="0"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;xsl:if test="$isEven='0'"&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="$stringToBreak"/&gt; &lt;xsl:if test="substring-after($stringToBreak,';')!=''"&gt; &lt;xsl:call-template name="add-line-breaks"&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="stringToBreak" select="substring-after($stringToBreak,';')"/&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="isEven" select="1"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; .... </code></pre> <p>An example of the input would be:</p> <p>George Aaron; Susan Lee Aaron; Richard Elliot Aaron; Albert Smith; Carry Johnson</p> <p>output would be something like:</p> <p>George Aaron; Susan Lee Aaron; <br/>Richard Elliot Aaron; Albert Smith; <br/> Carry Johnson</p> <p>The input XML looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;NewDataSet&gt; &lt;REPORT_OPTIONS&gt; &lt;RANK_RUN&gt;12/04/2013&lt;/RANK_RUN&gt; &lt;PRNT_WGHT_AVGE&gt;False&lt;PRNT_WGHT_RANK&gt; &lt;/REPORT_OPTIONS&gt; &lt;STUDENT_DETAILS&gt; &lt;STUD_PK&gt;1590&lt;/STUD_PK&gt; &lt;STUD_NAME&gt;Robert SMith&lt;/STUD_NAME&gt; &lt;PARENT&gt;jubju Aaron; Susan Lee Aaron; Richard Elliot Aaron; Carl Smith&lt;/PARENT&gt; &lt;/STUDENT_DETAILS&gt; &lt;/NewDataSet&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want to modify the <code>&lt;PARENT&gt;</code> tag so that every two parents there is a line break that will be rendered in HTML (Whatever the best way to do this is).</p>
 

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