Subject: Re: Upper-casing the first character of a string -- Am I missing some thing? From: Oliver Becker <obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:42:43 +0200 (MET DST) |
> 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 would say: if you don't want to use proprietary extensions - that's it! Two points: - you may use one xsl:value statement and connect the strings by concat - you can omit the 3rd parameter of substring Thus you get <xsl:value-of select="concat(translate(substring(@name, 1, 1), 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'), substring(@name, 2))" /> Is that less clunky? ... whatever that means - couldn't find it in my Muret-Sanders dictionary ;-) Cheers, Oliver /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ | ob|do Dipl.Inf. Oliver Becker | | --+-- E-Mail: obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | op|qo WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker | \-------------------------------------------------------------------/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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