Subject: RE: substring() From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 16:25:22 +0100 |
> > Is it just me, or would it be generally useful for XSL to provide a > substring() function with a numerical second argument? > Reducing a first name to an initial is one obvious application; We had this conversation a few weeks ago (regarding length()). As I learnt then, it's all due to the appalling decision to allow non-spacing diactricals in Unicode, which makes it quite hard to define what you mean by "the first character" in a string. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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