XSLT capitalization

[JontyMC]

I need a transformation that will look at an attribute and capitalize it if contains a certain phrase. For instance if there is an attribute "somewhere in the usa" and the phrase is "usa", it will change the attribute to "somewhere in the USA". Any ideas?

Jon

 

[dwarfthrower]

Perhaps run some sort of grep-like function using Regular Expressions over the XML input prior the the transform.

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[harebrain]

Which would mean using

sed

to actually effect replacement, provided you're a unix user, otherwise neither of these posts will help.

 

[jel]

If you want to do this in xsl, you could try this:

<xsl:value-of select=&quot;substring-before(@location,'usa')&quot;/>
<xsl:text>USA</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select=&quot;substring-after(@location,'usa')&quot;/>

It gets rather complicated if you have to deal with:
&quot;in usa, or sometimes not in usa&quot;
&quot;somewhere UsA&quot;
or if you also need to replace &quot;timbuktu&quot; and &quot;disneyland&quot;