How to ignore cases on attribute value

2BOrNot2B · January 30th, 2009, 11:48 AM

Hi. I'm using XSLT 1.0.

I have the following 3 possible inputs:
<Ball Color='yellow'>big</Ball>
<Ball Color='Yellow'>Small</Ball>
<Ball Color='YELLOW'>MEDIUM</Ball>

How do I get the value based on the Color "yellow" attribute by ignoring the "yellow" cases (lower, mix, upper)?

This is what I have so far:
<xsl:template match="Ball">
<xsl:value-of select='normalize-space(@Color='yellow')'/>
</xsl:template>

My current output is only "big",
when it should be "big", "Small", and "MEDIUM".

I tried using this but didn't work:
normalize-space(@Color=translate('yellow', 'abcd...z', 'ABCD...Z'))

Martin Honnen · January 30th, 2009, 11:55 AM

With XSLT 1.0 you need to use the translate function e.g.

Code:

<xsl:variable name="lc" select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'"/>
<xsl:variable name="uc" select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/>
<xsl:template match="Ball">
  <xsl:value-of select="translate(normalize-space(@Color), $uc, $lc) = 'yellow'"/>

mhkay · January 30th, 2009, 12:03 PM

Translating the constant string 'yellow' into upper case isn't going to do much good, you know what the answer is so you might as well write 'YELLOW'. It's the attribute @Color that you need to translate.