Re: [xsl] IGNORE CASE IN XSLT

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 04:36 PM 11/26/2004, Geert wrote:
> > > On the other hand, you could do something like:
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="*[translate(name(), 'ABC..', 'abc..') = 'italic']">
> > >   <!-- Yuck... -->
> > > </xsl:template>
> >
> > This will work (I think... it seems like it should but I havent tested it 
> > to check) but the easier way to do this is to simply use the union method 
> > for matching multiple elements:
> > <xsl:template match="italic | Italic">
> > proccesing code...
> > </xsl:template>
> > Hope this helps!
> > <M:D/>
>
> It will not help a lot if one cannot predict the use of case in element 
> names. :-( Especially documents that originate from HTML of SGML have this 
> problem, as HTML and SGML are case insensitive...
>
> It even gets worse if you have to account for ancestors as wel... :-(
>
> It would have been nice if the XSL standard would have provided a case 
> sensitivity option. But on the other hand, it is actually more a job for 
> XML parsers. Are there XML Parsers that have an option to ignore case of 
> the input? (not using a declaration file)

Not as such (such would be an XML+ parser of a kind, not a conformant XML 
processor), though you might be able to use an SGML parser.

You could run your case-folding as a pre-process (this is a simple 
modification of the identity transform), but since the OP also wants to 
match 'italic' to 'i', simple case-folding only gets you part of the way there.

Table-driven transforms, in which names of nodes for the result are looked 
up against their names in the source (or other criterion), are also not 
difficult.

Cheers,
Wendell


======================================================================
Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com
17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635
Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631
Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML
======================================================================