XSLT 1.0 Split

split-text-by-normalize.xsl

    <xsl:template name="split">
        <xsl:param name="text"/>
        <xsl:param name="by"/>
        <xsl:param name="normalize" select="false()"/>
 
        <xsl:variable name="l" select="substring-before($string, $by)"/>
        <xsl:variable name="r" select="substring-after($string, $by)"/>

        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$l and $normalize">
                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($l)" />
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="$l">
                <xsl:value-of select="$l" />
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="not($l) and $normalize">
                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($string)" />
            </xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="$string" />
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>

        <xsl:if test="$r">
            <xsl:call-template name="split-string-pad">
                <xsl:with-param name="string" select="$r" />
                <xsl:with-param name="by" select="$by" />
                <xsl:param name="normalize" select="$normalize"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

split-text-bylf-pad.xsl

   

    <xsl:template name="split-lf-pad">
        <xsl:param name="text"/>
        <xsl:param name="bylf" select="'&#xA;'"/>
        <xsl:param name="pad"/>
 
        <xsl:variable name="l" select="substring-before($string, $bylf)"/> 
        <xsl:variable name="r" select="substring-after($string, $bylf)"/>

        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$l">
                <xsl:variable name="spaces">
                    <xsl:call-template name="padding">
                        <xsl:with-param name="times" 
                            select="$pad - string-length(normalize-space($l))"/>
                    </xsl:call-template>
                </xsl:variable>
                <xsl:value-of select="concat(normalize-space($l),$spaces)" />
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($string)" />
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>

        <xsl:if test="$r">
            <xsl:call-template name="split-string-pad">
                <xsl:with-param name="string" select="$r" /> 
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="padding">
        <xsl:param name="times" select="0"/>
        <xsl:param name="spaces" select="''"/>
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when   test="$times>0">
                <xsl:call-template name="padding">
                    <xsl:with-param name="times" select="$times - 1"/>
                    <xsl:with-param name="spaces" select="concat($spaces,' ')"/>    
                </xsl:call-template>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="$spaces"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>