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Subject: Re: Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?
From: "Mark Wilson" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:45:58 -0800
Re:  Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if
Thanks Ken. I'll give it a try - I had no idea the function existed.
Mark

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From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:42 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?


At 2009-11-15 21:34 -0800, Mark Wilson wrote:
I need to render Czech language strings containing diacritics into strings with the diacritics removed. The Czech alphabet has 16 lower case diacritics and a somewhat smaller set of upper case diacritics. The strings are expressed in UTF-8.

The encoding is irrelevant to XSLT ... it is relevant to the XML processor inside your XSLT processor in order to know what the Unicode characters are, but XSLT just sees them as Unicode characters without an encoding.


I do not need to retain case, but I must locate and replace all diacritics.

My only plan so far is construct a gigantic <xsl:choose> to find strings containing at least one diacritic. Then I would need a gigantic <xsl:if> to change each diacritic into its unaccented counterpart.

I wonder if there is a simpler method for turning, for example, a word like "Safarmk" [S, r, m] into Safarik? Any ideas or suggestions,

If you are using XSLT 2.0, have you tried:


normalize-unicode( $yourString, "NFC" )

... which will return fully formed characters from characters using diacritics?

For example, this converts U+0065 U+0301 into U+00E9.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . Ken


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