RE: Getting the Base Character of Character with Diac

Following up on suggestions from others, if NFKD is supported then the
following should work reasonably well for European languages:

replace(normalize-unicode($in, 'NFKD'), '[̀-ͯ]', '')

or if you prefer

codepoints-to-string(string-to-codepoints(normalize-unicode($in,
'NFKD'))[not(. = 768 to 879)])

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Sese [mailto:jsese@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 September 2006 02:06
> To: Xsl-List
> Subject:  Getting the Base Character of Character with Diacritic
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way in xslt for me to get the base character of a
> character with diacritic?
> Like b to a? I was thinking of using the translate function,
> but it there are too many characters to include.
>
> -- Jeff