Simple XSLT template -

there xml document:

<data>how;many;i;can;tell;you</data> 

need xml using xslt version 1:

 <manydata>      <onedata>how</onedata>      <onedata>many</onedata>      <onedata>i</onedata>      <onedata>can</onedata>      <onedata>tell</onedata>      <onedata>you</onedata>    </manydata> 

how can it?

update: output format must xml.

this recursive solution 1 of shortest possible:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xsl/transform">  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>   <xsl:template match="data">   <manydata><xsl:apply-templates/></manydata>  </xsl:template>   <xsl:template match="text()" name="tokenize">   <xsl:param name="ptext" select="."/>    <xsl:if test="string-length($ptext)">       <onedata>        <xsl:value-of select=         "substring-before(concat($ptext,';'),';')"/>       </onedata>       <xsl:call-template name="tokenize">        <xsl:with-param name="ptext" select=         "substring-after($ptext,';')"/>       </xsl:call-template>      </xsl:if>  </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

when transformation applied on provided xml document;

<data>how;many;i;can;tell;you</data> 

the wanted, correct result produced:

<manydata>    <onedata>how</onedata>    <onedata>many</onedata>    <onedata>i</onedata>    <onedata>can</onedata>    <onedata>tell</onedata>    <onedata>you</onedata> </manydata>