Subject: Re: [xsl] Case conversion in XSL? From: "cutlass" <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:42:23 +0100 |
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> > > This is actually a serious point, > > Don't sound so surpised, not all my posts are trivia... > > > whats the implication of adding an uppercase/lowercase function to > > XSLT ? > > Case change is hard. That's why XML is case sensitive, unlike SGML > which was by default case insensitive, finding a culturally acceptable > case algorithm is a lot harder than you think. > > What's the uppercase of "i" for example? i would hope that the consensus answer would be 'I', but alas i believe i will be told something else..... there are 2 different scenarios a) case sensitivity for conditional processing possibly within test conditions and predicates b) case transformation for output i'm interested in both, and i am certain that the Unicode effort is doing case mappings; http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/ i agree its hard, but the work is already being done by our use of Unicode. cheers, jim fuller XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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