Hi, all!
Many thanks for all the help you have given me -- this list is a wonderful
resource. Here's my newest puzzle.
My original data uses an <sc> tag to indicate small caps data. Unfortunately,
it seems to assume that a true small caps font will be used to render that
data,
because the data in this element is of mixed case. So, for instance, here are
two examples:
Peter Lewis <sc>DPhil</sc>
<sc>figure 1</sc>
As you can see, "figure 1" is clearly supposed to be in small caps (as it would
be using a true small caps font), and "DPhil" should have the "DP" in full-size
caps and the "hil" in small caps (again as it would be using a true small caps
font).
Unfortunately, we cannot use a true small caps font for my output format
which is
a form of XHTML (actually OEB). I have a couple of bad options: (a) just
reducing
the size but leaving the case alone, which would result in small lowercase
letters;
(b) translating all the lowercase letters to caps and reducing the size,
which takes
care of the small caps except where they are truly supposed to be
full-sized caps,
so that "DPhil" would be a smaller version of "DPHIL".
A more elegant solution would require inserting a full-size span around
capital letters
in a smallcaps span and translating the lowercase letters into uppercase so
that
"DPhil" would be rendered
<span class="smallcap"><span class="full">DP</span>HIL</span>.
though this would be a workable alternative
<span class="smallcap"><span class="full">D</span><span
class="full">P</span>HIL</span>.
That seems like it ought to be doable, but I'd need to replace individual
characters
with a string of characters. I've just checked out Jeni Tennison's template
for "multiple
string replacements" at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/StringReplace.html
and it looks promising -- is that the way I should go? Or is there some simpler
solution? I guess I'm hoping for something like the translate() function,
but which lets
me replace the individual character with the character inside the span element.
Thanks in advance!
--Chris
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