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RE: Case conversion in XSL?
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>, "'cutlass'" <cutlass at secure0 dot com>
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Case conversion in XSL?
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:41:26 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> Talking about case - proper case-insensitive comparisons and
> case-insensitive functions could be really useful. In particular for
> xf:compare(), xf:contains(), xf:starts-with(), xf:ends-with(),
> xf:substring-before(), and xf:substring-after(). Perhaps the
> treatment of case is what you were aiming to gather from the
> collations in these cases?
Yes, the intention is that all these functions should work with a named
collation, and case-sensitivity should be a property of the collation.
The remaining challenge is how to enable people to make this portable, given
that collations are part of the context.
Mike Kay
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