Re: [xsl] starts-with on more than one item

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Adding a test inside the position()=last() 
> clause accounts for the case of two members, which presumably 
> shouldn't get a comma between them.

Putting a , before the and in a list is anyway a transatlantic
peversion, so in English as (usually) practiced in England 
you could lose the
     <xsl:if test="position() > 2">
       <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
     </xsl:if>

> The problem of transposing from singular to plural forms reliably in 
> English requires either NLP or at least a lookup table with all your 
> possible terms;

true but in this case the vocabulary is probably fairly restricted, so a
lookup table plus a fallback case of sticking an s on the end for
anything not in the table is probably workable.

David

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