Re: alphabetic set of xsl:result-document

On 8/22/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > The actual xslt I've been hacking has an x:replace()
> > function replacing certain characters (u/v i/y thorn/th) for
>
> Note that the xslt2 way of doing comparisons that are insensitive to such
> differences is really to specify a collation that does the right thing.
> However if saxon doesn't provide (or give acces to a java) collation
> that does the right thing for you that would mean writing (er something)
> in java that saxon sees as a collation, in which case you might find it
> easier to do a string replace within xslt. (I probably would, but my
> xslt is rather better than by java).

Ok, I don't know much about collations in this context.  What I'm
doing now is a string replace function in the xslt like:
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<xsl:function name="x:replace">
<xsl:param name="string"/><xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:value-of select="
if(empty($list))
then $string
else
x:replace(replace($string,$list[1],$list[2]),$list[position()&gt;2])"/>
</xsl:function>
-----

And so using it like:

<xsl:for-each-group select="//div[@type='psalm']//w"
group-by="substring(x:replace(lower-case(.), ('y', 'i', 'u','v',
'&#x00FE;', 'th', '&#x021D;', '3', '&amp;', '', ';', '')),1,1)">

Is there a simpler and/or better way to do this using saxon?

-James

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