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RE: Capitalizing content of a variable


Yes.

For instance, there's no upper-case equivalent for "ß" (sharp s). The most
common way to represent it in uppercase is "SS".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of FINLEY, Mike
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:11 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com'
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Capitalizing content of a variable
>
>
> Are there any languages where capitalizing can change the number of
> characters?
> mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhkay@iclway.co.uk]
> Sent: 09 August 2001 10:50
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Capitalizing content of a variable
>
>
> > <xsl:value-of
> >   select="concat(translate(substring($foo,1,1),'abc...','ABC...'),
> >                  substring($foo,2))"/>
> >
> > But of course this only works as-is for those lucky folks out there
> > whose character set is just [a-z][A-Z]
>
> I like to keep my answers short, otherwise I would have explained
> that "..."
> means "all the remaining characters in the alphabet that you are using."
>
> I don't think "z" was mentioned.
>
> Mike Kay
> Software AG
>
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