Re: pattern matching possible?

Sorry for the top post - thank Groupwise :(

I can't get 'translate' to work - this code (and many other similar
versions):

--------------------------------
    Dim a
    a =
"applications/application/acronym[translate(.,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='"
& LCase(sNodeText) & "']"
   oDupNodes = Session("Applications").selectNodes(a)

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produces this ASP error:

Unknown method.
applications/application/acronym[-->translate(.<--,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='asap']


Any ideas?  Notice that it doesn't seem to like the 'translate'
function.

TIA.

Hardy Merrill


>>> davidc@xxxxxxxxx 05/12/04 12:47PM >>>

  I'm wondering if there's a way using XPath and some pattern to find
  case *insensitive* matches for a particular app_name??

I think this is in the FAQ list.

If you don't mind a certain anglo-saxon bias then this isn't so bad

app_name[translate(.,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='abc']

If you need to handle accented letters, the lists get longer; if you
need
to handle a German sharp S uppercasing to the two characters SS then
you have to work a lot harder.

David

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