Subject: RE: [xsl] Last name first From: Emma Burrows <Emma.Burrows@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:06:57 +0000 |
As others have said, this can be an intractable problem unless the names really are only in the format FirstName MiddleInitial LastName in your data. You need to bear in mind names like "Michael O'Connell" or "Mary da Silva". You can find some food for thought here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-name s/ -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 30 January 2012 18:21 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Last name first On 30/01/2012 17:51, Jacob L wrote: > All, > > > I am using<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" .If in the input XML file, > the text in the<p>has a name such as > > <p> Aaron S. Williams</p> > > and I want the last name to come first, seperated by comma like this > > <p> Williams, Aaron S.</p> > > Is it possible using xslt? It's certainly possible if you can specify precisely what the rules are: for example, what you want to happen to names like Herbert von Karajan or Ralph Vaughan Williams. If all your names are in the simplified American format of John X. Doe then it's fairly easy, but with real names occurring in the real world it's much harder (regardless of what programming language you choose). Michael Kay Saxonica ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
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