Re: [xsl] Got a slick XPath expression to convert NEW YORK to New_York?

["Adam Retter adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If only XPath supported the the `\U` and `\L` operators for the
replacement pattern in fn:replace, then I think we could likely have
done it in a single regular expression...

On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 22:55, Adam Retter <adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am not sure this is "slick" but I think its interesting:
>
> fn:string-join(
>   for $word in tokenize("NEW YORK")
>   let $lower-codepoints := fn:string-to-codepoints(fn:lower-case($word))
>   let $capitalised-codepoints := (fn:head($lower-codepoints) - 32,
> fn:tail($lower-codepoints))
>   return
>     fn:codepoints-to-string($capitalised-codepoints)
> , "_")
>
> You could make it more succinct of course, but then I think it looses
> its readability!
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 19:27, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I need to convert multi-word names that are space-separated and uppercase to names that are underscore-separated, first letter of each word uppercase and remaining letters of the word lowercase.
> >
> > Example: NEW YORK --> New_York
> >
> > Example: SIMULATION INDICATOR --> Simulation_Indicator
> >
> > Do you have a slick XPath expression that does this transformation?
> >
> > /Roger
> > 
> >
>
>
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