RE: XSL with scripting

JC wrote:

Thanks for the helpful example. I think this is exactly the sort of
thing that an extension mechanism ought to be able to deal with. Is all
text in a document contracted or can there be some elements whose
content is not contracted? 

Element dependent. 'Grade one' braille is not contracted.

 Are different contraction rules applied to
different parts of the document? 

No, but any document may be contracted differently in different countries.
Within a 'locale' contractions are constant.


Is the contraction process just a
matter of mapping each word to an contracted form, or is it more
complicated than that?

Far more complicated. Both rule based, context based and exception (table)
driven.
Context information may be needed, as well as the content of an element.


HTH.

regards, DaveP


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