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>
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