uppercase in XSLT/XSL-FO

[Jurrie]

Hi all,

Is there a function or something in XSLT or XSL-FO to make data from an XML-file uppercase? I ask this becouse I have a XML-document with <title>whatever</title> tags, and i want the data to appear in uppercase in the final PDF-document.

Thanks for any help

 

[Alexander Schatten]

Hi all,

Is there a function or something in XSLT or XSL-FO to make data from an XML-file uppercase? I ask this becouse I have a XML-document with <title>whatever</title> tags, and i want the data to appear in uppercase in the final PDF-document.

this is not an XSLT, but an XPath issue. there are several xpath string functions, that can easily be found in the XPath standard

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions

look for the translate function. this will solve your problem.

alex

 

[Ron Peterson]

Is there a function or something in XSLT or XSL-FO to make data from an XML-file uppercase? I ask this becouse I have a XML-document with <title>whatever</title> tags, and i want the data to appear in uppercase in the final PDF-document.

There are some fonts that display upper case characters for both upper and lower case characters.

 

[Ben Edgington]

There are some fonts that display upper case characters for both upper and lower case characters.

Alternatively use the translate function from XPath.

With this XML,

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<doc>
<title>Hello, world!</title>
</doc>
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this transformation,

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<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xslutput omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/doc">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(title,
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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gives the result

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HELLO, WORLD!
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A neater way to do it if you have more than one occasion to upcase things is to define entities as follows:

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<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY lower "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz">
<!ENTITY upper "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ">
]>

<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xslutput omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/doc">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(title,&lower;,&upper"/> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
- - -

Ben