Topic: xsl transformation to uppercase

sorry for my english but i'm from Naples

in a xsl file i have

<xsl:for-each select="azstring">
<azstring><xsl:value-of select="."/></azstring>
</xsl:for-each>

i know that if i write

<xsl:for-each select="azstring">
<azstring><xsl:value-of select="."/>HELLO!</azstring>
</xsl:for-each>

every string will finish with HELLO!


now i would like to know how can i make become every string uppercase(or also lowercase, for me it is the same)


thanks



Antonio

(Edited by clockdva on 06-05-2004 18:27)

This is more of a style sheet type problem, you would want to assign a text-transform via your style sheet to transform the characters to upper case, or to lower case. XSL is not designed to modify the structure of the content, and your capitalization is a structural entity. The XSL is only resigned to redisplay your content into a different format, without modifying the actual content.

The purpose of XML is to allow for transmittion of content and not for the modification of content. Sorry.

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XSL is not designed to modify the structure of the content

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I'm not sure I would entirely agree with that. First, the "structure" of the content would be the organization of the content within various XML tags, and that's exactly what XSLT is meant to transform. Second, it does provide some capabilities to modify the content itself. It may not be its primary purpose, but it can do it.

This page gives an example of how you can use the XSLT translate() function to do a case conversion:

http://www.vbxml.com/xml/articles/caseconvert/


 

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thanks, tommorrow (in my office) i'll try.

the solution should be this:

<xsl:variable name="lcletters">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="ucletters">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</xsl:variable>

<xsl:for-each select="azstring">
<azstring>
<xsl:value-of select="translate("."/,$lcletters,$ucletters)"/>
</azstring>
</xsl:for-each>


or maybe this


<xsl:variable name="lcletters">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="ucletters">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</xsl:variable>

<xsl:for-each select="azstring">
<azstring>
<xsl:value-of select="translate(".",$lcletters,$ucletters)"/>
</azstring>
</xsl:for-each>


tomorrow i'll tell you



thanks


Antonio

(Edited by clockdva on 06-06-2004 14:38)

select="translate(".",$lcletters,$ucletters)"

Careful! The XML parser will read that as

select="translate("

followed by garbage that it doesn't understand.

1. If you want to use quotes in an XML attribute, you must use thoe &quot; escape sequence:

select="translate(&quot;.&quot;,$lcletters,$ucletters)"

2. You don't want quotes here. If you use quotes, then you'll be taking the string ".", converting it to uppercase (which does nothing because it's just a period), and inserting it into the document.

Rather, I think you just want to use the . itself:

select="translate(.,$lcletters,$ucletters)"

I may be wrong; perhaps you need to use the current() function to refer to the current node:

select="translate(current(),$lcletters,$ucletters)"

It's been a while since I wrote any XSLT myself.


 

thanks tomorrow i ll'ltell you

thanksssssssssssssssssssssss
it works(probably)
it is the same to use only select="translate(.,$lcletters,$ucletters)"
or select="translate(current(),$lcletters,$ucletters)"
grazie

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