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Re: [xsl] Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?

2009-11-16 00:41:01
Sorry. The email service filtered out the diacritics in the message I just sent. The three letters in brackets all have diacritics: S-hacek, r-hacek, and an accented 'i' .

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From: "Mark Wilson" <mark(_at_)knihtisk(_dot_)org>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:34 PM
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: [xsl] Does XSLT contain an easy means of determining if a string contains a diacritic?

Hi,
I need to render Czech language strings containing diacritics into strings with the diacritics removed. The Czech alphabet has 16 lower case diacritics and a somewhat smaller set of upper case diacritics. The strings are expressed in UTF-8. I do not need to retain case, but I must locate and replace all diacritics.

My only plan so far is construct a gigantic <xsl:choose> to find strings containing at least one diacritic. Then I would need a gigantic <xsl:if> to change each diacritic into its unaccented counterpart.

I wonder if there is a simpler method for turning, for example, a word like "Safarík" [S, r, í] into Safarik? Any ideas or suggestions,
Thanks,
Mark


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