Re: Uppercase

[Etienne Posthumus <etienne@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Steve Tinney wrote:
> Incidentally, on the subject of translate, I had a nano-epiphany a few
> days ago while bemoaning the lack of a function which detected whether
> any of the characters in a string occurred in another string.  As often
> with XSL, a few moments thinking brought the realization that there is a
> way to do it:
> 
>    <xsl:if test=". = translate(., '.,:;','')>

Steve, I am a newbie to XSL (but not to programming) and the above smells
suspiciously like a rather yummy hack.
Care to elucidate it a wee bit?

Cheers

Etienne posthumus
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