[xsl] Splitting multiple node occurrences into separate xmls

["Vishwajit Pantvaidya" <pantvaidya@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I need to do a transformation that will take an input xml string in a format 
that is something like
...<a>1</a><a>2</a><a>3</a><a>4</a>...
and apart from transforming it, will split the multiple node occurrences for 
"a" into different xml's i.e.
xml[1]=<a>1</a>
xml[2]=<a>2</a>...

I was thnking that if xsl offers some kind of looping facility, that may 
help. But then xsl transformation presumably being single-input, 
single-output process, just an xsl maynot by itself suffice. Is there a 
possibility that somehow I can have a java loop pass a looping variable into 
the xsl-sheet, so that the first transformation gives me the first 
occurrence of "a", and so on.

Another approach could be to let the xsl transformation return a single xml 
that has the multiple "a" occurrences and then subsequently seperate them 
out by carrying out XPath/DOM operations on the transformed xml.


- Vishwajit.