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RE: Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:41:32 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> It's interesting that you can build a sequence of integers in XPath
> 2.0 with the 'to' operator, but not a sequence of characters. For this
> situation, it would be really nice to be able to do:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="'a' to 'z'">
> ...
> </xsl:for-each>
>
It's often been suggested that there should be char-to-unicode and
unicode-to-char functions, which would allow you to write
<xsl:for-each
select="for $i in char-to-unicode('a')
to char-to-unicode('z')
return unicode-to-char($i)">
...
</xsl:for-each>
That would be explicitly based on Unicode values; finding all the characters
that are between 'a' and 'z' in your default collating sequence sounds like
a more difficult challenge.
Mike Kay
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