RE: [xsl] Case conversion in XSL?

Subject: RE: [xsl] Case conversion in XSL?
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:41:26 +0100
>   Talking about case - proper case-insensitive comparisons and
>   case-insensitive functions could be really useful. In particular for
>   xf:compare(), xf:contains(), xf:starts-with(), xf:ends-with(),
>   xf:substring-before(), and xf:substring-after(). Perhaps the
>   treatment of case is what you were aiming to gather from the
>   collations in these cases?

Yes, the intention is that all these functions should work with a named
collation, and case-sensitivity should be a property of the collation.

The remaining challenge is how to enable people to make this portable, given
that collations are part of the context.

Mike Kay


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