Re: Case conversion in XSL?

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> cutlass writes:
>  > whats the implication of adding an uppercase/lowercase function to XSLT ?
> uppercase/lowercase is a bit culture-specific, surely? if you
> uppercase some math symbols, what do you want returned? Does Unicode
> prescribe which things may "uppercase" themselves? If not, then XSLT
> cant do it. It it does, then its easy

The autoritative source appears to be The Unicode Standard,
Chapter 4.1 (in version 2.0). Case and case mapping are both
properties of unicode characters. The case property is normative,
while the case mapping is informative only. The text appears to
name all known caveats in case conversion, which are not too
much (though i'm to lazy to reproduce them here). Anyway, the
tables needed for every case conversion imaginable are huge,
you'll get them on CD only which is sold together with the book.

Regards
J.Pietschmann

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