Adding a test inside the position()=last()
clause accounts for the case of two members, which presumably
shouldn't get a comma between them.
Putting a , before the and in a list is anyway a transatlantic
peversion, so in English as (usually) practiced in England
you could lose the
<xsl:if test="position() > 2">
<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
The problem of transposing from singular to plural forms reliably in
English requires either NLP or at least a lookup table with all your
possible terms;
true but in this case the vocabulary is probably fairly restricted, so a
lookup table plus a fallback case of sticking an s on the end for
anything not in the table is probably workable.
David
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