Re: [xsl] Case conversion in XSL?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Case conversion in XSL?
From: Steve.Ball@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:35:53 +1000
Uh-oh... following-up my own follow-up...

Steve.Ball@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Gavin Corfield wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 10:44, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> > > I'm just wondering how I would convert the case of the text inside an
> > > element to uppercase...
> >
> > Use translate()
> >
> > example from Mike Kay's book
> >
> > translate($X, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
> > 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPSQRSTUVWXZY')
> 
> The XSLT Standard Library, http://xsltsl.sf.net/, already has these
> functions defined as templates; to-upper, to-lower, capitalise, etc.

I posted this reply before reading the rest of the thread.

Before I get inundated with flames, let me point out that
XSLTSL is a naive implementation (English language case folding only).
I have posted a message to the XSLTSL developer list requesting
that a more general solution be developed.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

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