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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I have an string in xml which is in Upper case in XSl i have to dispaly it but in proper case

Example :<NODE1>THIS IS MY STRING</NODE1>
It should Display Like this: This Is My String

I wasn't familiar with this use of "proper case".

Publisher's rules vary in different languages. Some American newspapers, particularly the more "old-fashioned" sort, seem to use leading upper-case on all words except "a" and "the"; in England upper-case letters are generally used only on nouns and perhaps on longer verbs.

I'm not aware of any publisher who capitalizes every word, but if that's what you want to do, then in XPath 2.0 you can use tokenize() to split the string into words, and substring() and upper-case()/lower-case() to change the case.

In 1.0, use the tokenize() template from the EXSLT library, and use
translate("ABCDE...", "abcde...") for case conversion, assuming all your text is ASCII-only.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I believe it's more commonly referred to as Title Case

There is not any solution to that till now

Hi All,
Here is a solution:

<xsl:template name="TitleCase">
      <xsl:param name="text" />
      <xsl:param name="lastletter" select="' '"/>
      <xsl:if test="$text">
         <xsl:variable name="thisletter" select="substring($text,1,1)"/>
         <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$lastletter=' '">
               <xsl:value-of select="translate($thisletter,'abcdefghijklmnopqrs tuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
               <xsl:value-of select="$thisletter"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
         </xsl:choose>
         <xsl:call-template name="TitleCase">
            <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring($text,2)"/>
            <xsl:with-param name="lastletter" select="$thisletter"/>
         </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>

 Sample usage:

<xsl:call-template name="TitleCase">
       <xsl:with-param name="text"
          select="translate(normalize-space(text()),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdef ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>

(Mailing list of apache has discussed about this while ago...)

Regards,
Mohan

Well, it might be a solution.

Here is a solution:


It won't produce "Title Case Conversion in XSLT" as its output, it will produce "Title Case Conversion In XSLT", which looks pretty ugly to me. But it it's what you want, go with it.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Well if your output is CSS, you can use CSS functionality to convert the case to Title Case. Just my $0.02