Re: [xsl] replacing diacritical marks with combining unicode characters

[Terry Ofner <tofner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have decided to try a character map. When I used the sheet below,  
however, it converts <br /> to <br>:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";  
version="2.0">


        <xsl:output use-character-maps="cm1"/>

        <xsl:character-map name="cm1">
            <xsl:output-character character="&#728;"  
string="&amp;#774;"/><!--breve-->
            <xsl:output-character character="&#175;"  
string="&amp;#772;"/> <!-- macron -->
        </xsl:character-map>

    <xsl:template match="br"/>

        <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
            <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
            </xsl:copy>
        </xsl:template>

    </xsl:stylesheet>

I really don't need the <br /> elements. That is the reason for the  
template rule removing them. But is the switch from <br/> to <br>  
caused by the output line?

Terry Ofner
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tofner@xxxxxxxxxxx




On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Michael Kay wrote:

> > The function fn:normalize-unicode() will do what you want,
> > with a second argument of "NFC".
>
> I'm not sure it will, because the input is using non-combining  
> diacritical
> marks. I think the answer is translate():
>
> translate($in, '&#728;...', '&#774;...'
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/