At 2007-11-26 18:59 +0000, Gareth Howells wrote:
I'm trying to convert a string to uppercase before using it in a select
statement using XSLT 1.0, and for now I'm using translate() as follows:
<xsl:variable name="pClubCaps" select="translate($pClub,
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSSTUVWXYZ')" />
where $pClub is a parameter passed to the stylesheet from a JSP page. Of
course, converting to lowercase would simply require the second and third
parameters of translate() to be switched.
I was wondering if there's a nicer way of converting strings to upper or
lower case, rather than using translate()?
If by "nicer" you'll accept "more compact", this is what I direct my
students to include at the top of their stylesheets:
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY lower 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'>
<!ENTITY upper 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'>
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
Then, in your stylesheet you would have:
<xsl:variable name="pClubCaps"
select="translate($pClub,'&lower;','&upper;')"/>
But as for functionality, translate() is all we have to work with in XSLT 1.0.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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