Re: Converting a string to Uppercase or Lowercase with

On 26/11/2007, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Hi Ken,

Out of interest - why in this case would you prefer using entities
over variables?  My advice would be to avoid entities, I don't see any
benefit here (or in most cases, so I'm approaching this from an
already negative angle :) ....  especially for people new to XSLT.

thanks
andrew