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RE: XPath case insensitive queries

• To: "'Chris Burdess'" <dog@b...>,"'Pierre Martins'" <pierre.martins@s...>
• Subject: RE: XPath case insensitive queries
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:05:30 -0000
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> > If you use the lower-case or upper-case function of XPath, you can 
> > make you query readable and case insensitive very easily.
> 

Technically, with XPath 2.0, the correct solution is not to normalize both
strings to upper or lower case, but to use a case-blind collation.
Unfortunately there are as yet no standards for the URIs used to identify
collations, so you have your work cut out to make this portable.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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