Re: [xsl] Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-11-15 21:34 -0800, Mark Wilson wrote:
> I need to render Czech language strings
> containing diacritics into strings with the
> diacritics removed. The Czech alphabet has 16
> lower case diacritics and a somewhat smaller set
> of upper case diacritics. The strings are expressed in  UTF-8.

The encoding is irrelevant to XSLT ... it is
relevant to the XML processor inside your XSLT
processor in order to know what the Unicode
characters are, but XSLT just sees them as
Unicode characters without an encoding.

> I do not need to retain case, but I must locate and replace all diacritics.
>
> My only plan so far is construct a gigantic
> <xsl:choose> to find strings containing at least
> one diacritic. Then I would need a gigantic
> <xsl:if> to change each diacritic into its unaccented counterpart.
>
> I wonder if there is a simpler method for
> turning, for example, a word like "Safarmk" [S,
> r, m] into Safarik? Any ideas or suggestions,

If you are using XSLT 2.0, have you tried:

  normalize-unicode( $yourString, "NFC" )

... which will return fully formed characters from characters using
diacritics?

For example, this converts U+0065 U+0301 into U+00E9.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . .  . Ken


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