uppercase and lowercase functions XSLT/XPath

[R]

Hello everybody.

I've got a simple question.

I know that w3c recommendation does not support any functions for
dealing with uppercase and lowercase strings.

But maybe someone has a workaround for uppercase/lowercase functions?

thanks in advance for any help
cheers
R

[Joris Gillis]

Hi,
Tempore 21:08:57, die 08/04/2005 AD, hinc in xml-an...@googlegroups.com scripsit R <ruth...@poczta.onet.pl>:

> But maybe someone has a workaround for uppercase/lowercase functions?

When pure XSLT1.0 is the option, it is common to use the 'translate()' function:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:variable name="lower">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="upper">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</xsl:variable>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="translate('foo',$lower,$upper)"/><!--FOO-->
<xsl:value-of select="translate('BAR',$upper,$lower)"/><!--bar-->
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

For real case-conversion, you should use an extension function. Check out exslt for example.

regards,
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