Re: XSLT function for title capitalization?

I would not have capitalized the bisb.



Cheers,



E.

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Eliot Kimber

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From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
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Date: Monday, April 9, 2018 at 5:09 PM
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Subject: Re:  XSLT function for title capitalization?



My copy-editors at Wiley tried to impose US-style title capitalization on my
book, I found it incredibly ugly:



bLulab Is Inmate at Prison He Opened as Brazilbs President


"Is", "at", "He", "as"? Where's the logic?



Michael Kay

Saxonica



On 9 Apr 2018, at 21:52, David Sewell dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Wondering if anyone has a serviceable function (preferably in XSLT 2/3 but v1
is fine if it works) that takes a string as input and returns it with title
capitalization according to English-language editorial practice (for example,
Chicago Manual of Style).  So for example

A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ==> A Memorandum of Understanding

WHERE DID THE DRUIDS COME FROM? ==> Where Did the Druids Come From?

BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF [MR.] KITE ==> Being for the Benefit of [Mr.] Kite

Use case is, as you might guess, processing a lot of titles transcribed as all
caps, wanting to convert them to standard title case format.

It doesn't have to be perfect, just anything that will minimize the need for
hand-editing.

David S.

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David Sewell
Manager of Digital Initiatives
The University of Virginia Press
Email: dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx   Tel: +1 434 924 9973
Web: http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda



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