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Upper-casing the first character of a string -- Am I missing something?
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- Subject: Upper-casing the first character of a string -- Am I missing something?
- From: Brian Young <Brian dot Young at sas dot com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:34:20 -0400
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hello,
I need to upper-case the first character of a string contained in my input XML prior to output. I was wondering if there was a better way, this seems a bit clunky:
<xsl:value-of select="translate(substring(@name, 1, 1), 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')" />
<xsl:value-of select="substring(@name, 2, string-length(@name) - 1)" />
I don't need to worry about non-English characters, as this code is meant to convert a property name ("text") over to its corresponding accessor method name ("getText", "setText"). I do the "get" vs. "set" determination earlier.
Thanks,
Brian Young
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