Appreciate the feedback. In the end what I'm really trying to do is
affect the capitalization of certain words. Whether our titles are all
upper-case (which is where the problem arose) or title-case some words
will always have special capitalization rules (example TransLink). I
was just attempting to centralize the storage and conversion of these
exception scenarios into a function that would be able to handle any
kind of title one would throw at it.
I'll keep pondering better ways of going about this.
Cheers,
Spencer
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I'm creating a function (so using 2.0), and this function
should be generic enough to handle pretty much anything I
throw at it, so I set the param type as node(). Trouble pops
up though when I call a function such as the upper-case()
xslt function on the parameter being passed in, as it's a
string now, not a node.
You've simplified the code to illustrate the problem, which is fine, but
sometimes when people submit a problem like this I like to stand back and
think: what are you actually trying to achieve? What is the problem to which
this rather convoluted code is perceived as the solution? As far as I can
see, you are trying to make one function do too much. It doesn't feel right
to me that a function that navigates to descendent nodes when given a node,
should also do something useful if given a string. Sure, you can do it, but
is there a better design?
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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