Re: [xsl] Getting the Base Character of Character with Diacritic

[Jeff Sese <jsese@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Abel, Colin and Sir Mike, for the suggestions; it was what i wanted.
-- Jeff

Michael Kay wrote:
> Following up on suggestions from others, if NFKD is supported then the
> following should work reasonably well for European languages:
>
> replace(normalize-unicode($in, 'NFKD'), '[̀-ͯ]', '')
>
> or if you prefer
>
> codepoints-to-string(string-to-codepoints(normalize-unicode($in,
> 'NFKD'))[not(. = 768 to 879)]) 
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Sese [mailto:jsese@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 19 September 2006 02:06
> > To: Xsl-List
> > Subject: [xsl] Getting the Base Character of Character with Diacritic
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way in xslt for me to get the base character of a 
> > character with diacritic?
> > Like b to a? I was thinking of using the translate function, 
> > but it there are too many characters to include.
> >
> > -- Jeff