Subject: RE: [xsl] String Case Conversion: Title Case From: "Mario Madunic" <Mario_Madunic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:20:57 -0500 |
I've had the pleasure of doing this in the past and here is a helpful hint as to what Wendell has mentioned. I created an XML doc that contained a list of interesting names, acronyms, prepositions, etc, to test against and eventually it all sat in a db for ease of updating and pumped out the XML. This list was maintained not by myself but by others. As long as they followed the their own spelling rules, everything was fine. When testing against the list I lower-cased the test string vs a lower-case instance in the control list and grabbed the content of the entry. If you are using a processor with db extensions, then you can test against the db directly, I believe. <controlVocab> <entry>and</entry> <entry>XML</entry> ... </controlVocab> Marijan (Mario) Madunic Publishing Specialist New Flyer Industries -----Original Message----- From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:45 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [xsl] String Case Conversion: Title Case At 03:43 AM 10/7/2009, Mike wrote: > > I have used upper-case and lower-case methods in xslt2.0. But > > I like to know, how to convert Title-Case/Upper-Lower Case. > > Could any one share with me the logic for this. > > > >There is no function for creating title-case in the standard function >library because it was considered too culturally sensitive. Conventions for >capitalizing titles vary greatly from one country to another, and even among >different publishers within the same country (compare British with US >newspapers, for example). Simply forcing any letter to lower-case if it is >preceded by another letter and to upper-case otherwise does not give >acceptable results in any country, but if that's what you want to do, it's >easy enough to write your own function. You can test whether a character is >a letter using the regex construct \p{L}. If you do write your own function, you will quickly find you need a stop list to fix problems with acronyms and interesting names (such as "XML" and "XPath", not "Xml" and "Xpath"), to say nothing of whatever local rules your title case convention follows (such as leaving prepositions in lower case, or whatever). Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: This communication (and any and all information or material transmitted with this communication) is confidential, may be privileged and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, retransmission, circulation, distribution, reproduction, conversion to hard copy, copying or other use of this communication, information or material is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. If you received this communication in error or if it is forwarded to you without the express authorization of New Flyer, please notify us immediately by telephone or by return email and permanently delete the communication, information and material from any computer, disk drive, diskette or other storage device or media. Thank you.
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