[xsl] Trying to select sibling nodes between two nodes

["Ylvisaker, Steve" <steve.j.ylvisaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have some unfortunate xml that I am trying to parse:

<label>first text<br/>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text<br/>third
text</label>

I need to transform this into:

<label>
 <flowPara>first text</flowPara>
 <flowPara>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text</flowPara>
 <flowPara>third text</flowPara>
</label>

Basically I need to select nodes between nodes in a "flat" data progression. I
can think of some ugly approaches that would accomplish this but it seems I
should be able to use "<<" and ">>" to select nodes between occurrences of
<br/>. However, no matter how I attempt to use these operators the result is a
syntax error with "<" being illegal.

Can anyone point me to an example of how I can unflatten this xml?

Thanks in advance - Steve
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