Re: [xsl] Will every XSLT processor reduce upper-case('ß') to SS ?

On 05/01/2013 10:08, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Here is a common German surname:
>
>        Strauß
>
> I used SAXON to convert the surname to uppercase:
>
>      upper-case('Strauß')                  returns STRAUSS
>
> Notice that ß was converted to SS.
Assuming the processor is using Unicode later than 3.2 all processors 
should use the same (unicode defined) tables. The Xpath upper-case 
function does not depend on the locale or (directly) the processor, just 
on the version of Unicode supported.
the definition of upper-case notes:

> These functions may not always be linguistically appropriate ....

see

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-upper-case

David

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