Hi Tom and Ari,
valuable comments, however, couldn't one adapt Code from Java's
toLowerCase/toUpperCase, which is locale-dependant?
Thanks, Marc
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From: K. Ari Krupnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: XPath: case insensitive?
> Tom Bradford wrote:
> >
> > "Dzaebel, Marc" wrote:
> > > while the W3C strives to find a solution, are there any efficient
tricks in
> > > Xalan to search insensitive or do I have to use translate(...)?
> >
> > Wrong list, but good question. That's something our users are
> > wondering, too. The problem with case sensitivity in the context of XML
> > is the issue of encodings. Case sensitivity only means something in a
> > minority of the world's languages.
>
> And within that minority, there are different views on case-floding. In
> some languages, both upper and lower case letters are accented, while in
> others, only lower-case ones are. So uppercase('�') is locale-dependent.
>
> Ari.
>
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