Re: [xsl] Flattening characters to plain latin

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> In XPath 2.0 I think you can achieve this using
>
> codepoints-to-string(string-to-codepoints(normalize-unicode($in, 'NFKD'))[.
> lt 127])
>
> This splits composite characters into the base character plus modifiers,
> then strips off the modifiers.

Wow! Some solutions to complex problems are just too pretty to ignore! 
Reading the requirement of the OP, I would've never thought there was 
such an easy, solid and sound solution to it. May I nominate it for the 
Best XSLT 2 Coding Example Award?

Cheers!
-- Abel