Subject: Translate hacks [was: Re: Uppercase] From: Steve Tinney <stinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:03:06 -0500 |
Etienne Posthumus wrote: >> <xsl:if test=". = translate(., '.,:;','')"> > > Care to elucidate it a wee bit? Sure; there's not much to it, really. Instead of testing the string to see if it contains any characters from the other string directly, you use translate() to strip out any occurrences of the query-set from (a copy of) the original string, and then compare it to the original to see if they're the same. If they're not, you know the string contains characters from the translated-out set. More complicated to describe than use, probably. You can extend this principle to test, for example, if a string ends with a punctuation mark: <?xml version='1.0'?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:call-template name="endswithpunct"> <xsl:with-param name="str" select="'abc.'"/></xsl:call-template> <xsl:call-template name="endswithpunct"> <xsl:with-param name="str" select="'abc'"/></xsl:call-template> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="endswithpunct"> <xsl:param name="str"/> <xsl:value-of select="$str"/><xsl:text> does </xsl:text> <xsl:if test="string-length(translate(substring($str,string-length($str)), ',.:;?!','')) != 0"> <xsl:text>not </xsl:text> </xsl:if> <xsl:text>end with punctuation mark.
</xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Steve XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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