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RE: Re: Converting a string to Uppercase or Lowercase

Subject: RE: Re: Converting a string to Uppercase or Lowercase without using translate() ?
From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:02:26 -0500
RE: Re:  Converting a string to Uppercase or Lowercase
Nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't meet the stated requirement, that is, it isn't part of XSLT 1.0. --
Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:47:45 -0800
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re:  Converting a string to Uppercase or Lowercase  without using translate() ?


Mmmm. Forgive me but what is wrong with fn:upper-case?


Sincerely,
Steven

--
Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
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On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:28 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote:


At 2007-11-26 18:59 +0000, Gareth Howells wrote:
I'm trying to convert a string to uppercase before using it in a select
statement using XSLT 1.0, and for now I'm using translate() as follows:


<xsl:variable name="pClubCaps" select="translate($pClub,
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSSTUVWXYZ')" />

where $pClub is a parameter passed to the stylesheet from a JSP page. Of
course, converting to lowercase would simply require the second and third
parameters of translate() to be switched.


I was wondering if there's a nicer way of converting strings to upper or
lower case, rather than using translate()?

If by "nicer" you'll accept "more compact", this is what I direct my students to include at the top of their stylesheets:


<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
 <!ENTITY lower 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'>
 <!ENTITY upper 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'>
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
               version="1.0">


Then, in your stylesheet you would have:


<xsl:variable name="pClubCaps"
             select="translate($pClub,'&lower;','&upper;')"/>

But as for functionality, translate() is all we have to work with in XSLT 1.0.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


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