I am transforming a bibliography into HTML using MLA, Chicago, etc. formats,
where I want to have a period after the author, book title, etc. Sometimes
my data comes with the period already attached, and sometimes not, so I need
a way of using xsl:if to test if the last character is a period or not. I
guess, then, that I am looking for something like a "lastchar" variable in
XSLT, but so far I have not been able to find any examples of this sort of
case in my XSLT books or on the web.
A sample piece of the XSLT file area, just for the entity <title>is like this:
<xsl:template match="title">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="ancestor::listBibl">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@level='m'">
<span style="font-style:italic">
<xsl:apply-templates/>. </span>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@level='j'">
<span style="font-style:italic">
<xsl:apply-templates/>.
</span>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@level='a'">
"<xsl:apply-templates/>."
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@level='u'">
"<xsl:apply-templates/>."
</xsl:when>
Charles Muller
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Charles Muller <acmuller(_at_)gol(_dot_)com>
Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary
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