[sorry, a bit off-topic but a follow up]
The trouble is that the font has to have an actual small-caps
variant built
into it for that technique to work. As it happens, very few
fonts do have a
small-caps variant, which leaves the decision of how to
render the string to
the browser. I have read that, with most fonts, most browsers
either ignore
the setting or render the string as all caps. I wanted
neither of those
results.
that is a problem, yes.
on the other hand only very few fonts can be used relatively safely on the web
anyway. I only briefly tested save fonts on Windows, but all seem to have a
small-caps variant. Depending on your target platform that might be not what
you want. But at least Mac browsers either should have these exact same fonts
too (with Microsoft font pack that installs with Mac IE) or I strongly suspect
Mac OS own fonts have this font-variant as well (just by being Mac fonts ;).
All the following (MS) fonts have a small caps variant:
Arial (Mac: Helvetica?)
Verdana (Mac: Lucida grande?)
Times New Roman
Georgia
Courier
I guess the XSL you presented does not make a great difference in your
environment (speed of transformation?), but at least it blows up the size of
the HTML.
So, no, that's not what I sought, but thank you for suggesting it.
anytime, sorry to have been no real help
chris