Re: [xsl] Converting a string to Uppercase or Lowercase without using translate() ?

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

At 2007-11-27 15:14 +0000, Andrew Welch wrote:
> or perhaps "manage" your namespaces:
>
> <!ENTITY xslt-ns 'http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns="&xslt-ns;" version="2.0">
>
> I know I'm being silly now...

Not really ... I've used entities for namespace URI strings when a 
vocabulary changes its URI but the transformation of the elements is 
unchanged:  keep a master copy of the stylesheet in a source code 
control system, deploy copies to two directories, use parameter 
entities to define general entities with the namespace URI string, 
and then each stylesheet supports a different version of the URI string.

There were other nuances that allowed me to address the differences 
between vocabularies, but that was the gist.

I gather from other comments that XML syntactic features would rather 
be ignored than employed in an XSLT stylesheet.  My background is 
SGML so not only do I not have an aversion to the syntactic 
constructs, I tend to make use of them when I can.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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