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[ Scott Purcell] > Also, in the above example: child::first='John' > How could I find John if the name was lower case john? > Eg: I would like to find John or john or JOHN or JOhn. > Names in XML, as you probably know, are case-sensitive, and xslt does not have a case-insensitive compare. The usual way to do a case-insensitive compare is to use the the translate() function. Here as an example, where I create separate variables. You do not have to do this but it is more readable, and easier if you will be doing several such compares. <xsl:variable name='uppers' select='"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"'/> <xsl:variable name='lowers' select='"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"'/> The test in your predicate could be something like this ("first" is the shorthand syntax for "child::first") - translate(first, $uppers, $lowers) = "john" Notice that you need quotes around the two translation strings, otherwise they would be understood as element names rather than as strings. Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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