Andreas Prilop wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Martin Honnen wrote:
>
>>     name="iso88591LowerCaseLetters"
>>     select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö×øùúûüý'" />
> 
>                                                                  ^
> 
> The multiplication sign (×) isn't exactly a letter.

Right, I was simply to lazy to copy anything by hand from a list of 
defined letters and generated those strings programmatically from 
character codes. For the XPath use with the translate function it does 
not matter semantically as long as the second and the third argument 
have the same length and that sign × is at the same position in both 
arguments, then no conversion/translation happens.

> However, "sharp s" and "y with diaeresis" are.

But using XPath 1.0 translate it is only possible to translate one 
character into another but not one into a sequence of others so for ß to 
SS translatation the suggested approach with translate is not going to work.

I guess I just need to be more careful to name my variables and not have 
them reference a standard when the variable use is not quite up to the 
standard :).

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	Martin Honnen
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