Re: [xsl] SGML to XML

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

At 06:11 PM 2/25/2009, you wrote:
> The main problem I had with SX was that its method of normalizing
> names was to uppercase all of them, regardless of the case in
> which the name was given when declared.  Since I was unable to
> put up with the resulting ugliness, I had to devise and run
> another processing step to re-normalize things using the correct
> case.  (Later, I found a stylesheet from Wendell Piez that makes
> this easy; unfortunately, I can't find it on the Web now.
> Wendell, it *is* on the Web, isn't it?)

Um, *choke*, is it?

I'm afraid I'm one of those people who will be forgotten by history 
because after doing a thing, I lose interest and never put it on the web.

In any case, the routine you are speaking of is a pretty 
straightforward table-driven mapping, perhaps somewhat innovative in 
its time but now hardly impressive.

All you need is a list of the case-correct names, and to rip through 
the document mapping case-folded names into corrected names.

Of course, it won't work if your case-folding has thrown information 
away, such as the difference between "UPPERCASE" and "uppercase".

Cheers,
Wendell


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