- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:27:23 +0100
- To: "Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@east.sun.com>
- CC: Emil Åström <Emil.Astrom@excosoft.se>, www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
Hi "Eve L. Maler" wrote: > > At 11:51 AM 11/6/00 +0100, Emil Åström wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have two questions, one about XPath case-sensitivity and one > >about child sequences in XPointer. > > > >1. The string functions of XPath (starts-with(), contains(), etc.) > >all seem to be case-sensitive. Is there a way to do case- > >insensitive string comparison in XPath. > > Not to my knowledge -- you might need an extension function. Does anyone > else know? The classical -yet verbose- way to do is to convert to lower (or uppercase) prior to test using the translate function: translate(myString, 'AZERTYUIOPQSDFGHJKLMWXCVBN', 'azertyuiopqsdfghjklmwxcvbn') Hope this helps. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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