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I am transforming a bibliography into HTML using MLA, Chicago, etc. formats, where I want to have a period after the author, book title, etc. Sometimes my data comes with the period already attached, and sometimes not, so I need a way of using xsl:if to test if the last character is a period or not. I guess, then, that I am looking for something like a "lastchar" variable in XSLT, but so far I have not been able to find any examples of this sort of case in my XSLT books or on the web. A sample piece of the XSLT file area, just for the entity <title>is like this: <xsl:template match="title"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="ancestor::listBibl"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@level='m'"> <span style="font-style:italic"> <xsl:apply-templates/>. </span> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@level='j'"> <span style="font-style:italic"> <xsl:apply-templates/>. </span> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@level='a'"> "<xsl:apply-templates/>." </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@level='u'"> "<xsl:apply-templates/>." </xsl:when> Charles Muller --------------------------- Charles Muller <acmuller@xxxxxxx> Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary [http://www.acmuller.net] H-Buddhism List Editor [http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/] Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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