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 Many thanks for all the help you have given me -- this list is a wonderful resource. Here's my newest puzzle. My original data uses an <sc> tag to indicate small caps data. Unfortunately, it seems to assume that a true small caps font will be used to render that data, because the data in this element is of mixed case. So, for instance, here are two examples: Peter Lewis <sc>DPhil</sc> <sc>figure 1</sc> As you can see, "figure 1" is clearly supposed to be in small caps (as it would be using a true small caps font), and "DPhil" should have the "DP" in full-size caps and the "hil" in small caps (again as it would be using a true small caps font). Unfortunately, we cannot use a true small caps font for my output format which is a form of XHTML (actually OEB). I have a couple of bad options: (a) just reducing the size but leaving the case alone, which would result in small lowercase letters; (b) translating all the lowercase letters to caps and reducing the size, which takes care of the small caps except where they are truly supposed to be full-sized caps, so that "DPhil" would be a smaller version of "DPHIL". A more elegant solution would require inserting a full-size span around capital letters in a smallcaps span and translating the lowercase letters into uppercase so that "DPhil" would be rendered <span class="smallcap"><span class="full">DP</span>HIL</span>. though this would be a workable alternative <span class="smallcap"><span class="full">D</span><span class="full">P</span>HIL</span>. That seems like it ought to be doable, but I'd need to replace individual characters with a string of characters. I've just checked out Jeni Tennison's template for "multiple string replacements" at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/StringReplace.html and it looks promising -- is that the way I should go? Or is there some simpler solution? I guess I'm hoping for something like the translate() function, but which lets me replace the individual character with the character inside the span element. Thanks in advance! --Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texterity ~ XML and PDF ePublishing Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Loschen, XML Developer Texterity, Inc. 144 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772 USA tel: +1.508.804.3033 fax: +1.508.804.3110 email: loschen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.texterity.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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