Split String To Array Using XPATH

[Alex]

I'm trying to break a string into an array based on the length. for Ex: If I have a string of 30 characters, I want to convert into an array of 5 characters each using an xpath function.

Is there any way to do this? Also, I noticed in this thread - Creating an incremental count variable in XSLT / XPath when using Xpath for..in..return?

that we can use "For" as "For $i in 1 to $length return $i". When I'm trying to use "1 to 5" i.e. constants, xpath is accepting, but when I'm trying to pass a variable " 1 to $length", xpath is not accepting.

Please suggest.

Alex

[Jamil]

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<root>

    <string>123456789012345678901234567890</string>

</root>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"

    version="1.0">

    

    <xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>

    

    <xsl:template match="/root/string">

        <xsl:variable name="var" select="substring(.,1,5),substring(.,6,5),substring(.,11,5),substring(.,16,5),substring(.,21,5),substring(.,26,5)"/>

        <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="$var[1]"/><xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="$var[2]"/><xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="$var[3]"/><xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="$var[4]"/><xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="$var[5]"/><xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="$var[6]"/><xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

    </xsl:template>

    

</xsl:stylesheet>

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12345

67890

12345

67890

12345

67890