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Hi Charles, > 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. Use the substring() function to get the last character of a string. The following tests whether the last character of the string value of the current node is a period: substring(., string-length(.)) = '.' Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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