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From: <christof.hoeke@------->
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Date: 9/2/2004 7:56:00 AM
> Von: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Betreff: [xsl] Small Caps Solution (a bit long)
>
> After years of raiding the archive for solutions, I am
> finally un-lurking
> and posting my own solution. I wanted to render a string as small caps
> t'other day, but I couldn't find a full solution on the
> Internet.

hi,
if i understand the problem right, there is a much simpler and shorter
solution without even bothering XSL just with plain CSS which you are using
anyway:

	<h1 style="font-variant: small-caps;">A String to Render in Small Caps</h1>

(better to put it in a CSS-class of course...)
This might not be working in every browser, but at least covers a reasonble
amount of them (Moz, IE, Opera, Safari etc).

is that what you were looking for?

cheers
chris




> So, I rolled my own, and here it is. I have included the XML input
> and the HTML
> output (from Saxon 8). I hope no one minds a fairly lengthy post, as I
> wanted to provide full detail.
>
> XML File
> ------------------------------
> <body>
>   <heading1>A String to Render in Small Caps</heading1>
> </body>
> ------------------------------
>
> XSL File
> ------------------------------
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>   <html>
>     <head>
>       <title>Small Cap Test</title>
>     </head>
>     <style type="text/css">
>       .smallCapUpper {
>         font-size: Larger
>       }
>       .smallCapLower
>         font-size: Smaller
>       }
>     </style>
>     <body>
>       <h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
>     </body>
>   </html>
>   </xsl:template>
>   <xsl:template match="heading1">
>     <xsl:call-template name="smallCaps">
>       <xsl:with-param name="inString" select="."/>
>     </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template name="smallCaps">
>     <xsl:param name="inString"/>
>     <xsl:variable name="firstLetter"
> select="substring($inString, 1, 1)"/>
>     <xsl:variable name="upperFirst" select="translate($firstLetter,
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
>     <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="$firstLetter = $upperFirst">
>         <xsl:variable name="lowerTest" select="translate($inString,
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '++++++++++++++++++++++++++')"/>
>         <xsl:choose>
>           <xsl:when test="contains($lowerTest, '+')">
>             <xsl:variable name="upperToRemove"
> select="substring-before($lowerTest, '+')"/>
>             <span class="smallCapUpper"><xsl:value-of
> select="$upperToRemove"/></span>
>             <xsl:call-template name="smallCaps">
>               <xsl:with-param name="inString"
> select="substring-after($inString, $upperToRemove)"/>
>             </xsl:call-template>
>           </xsl:when>
>           <xsl:otherwise> <!-- test="contains($lowerTest, '+')" -->
>             <span class="smallCapUpper"><xsl:value-of
> select="$lowerTest"/></span>
>           </xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise> <!-- test="$firstLetter = $upperFirst" -->
>         <xsl:variable name="upperTest" select="translate($inString,
> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', '++++++++++++++++++++++++++')"/>
>         <xsl:choose>
>           <xsl:when test="contains($upperTest, '+')">
>             <xsl:variable name="lowerToRemove"
> select="substring-before($upperTest, '+')"/>
>             <span class="smallCapLower"><xsl:value-of
> select="translate($lowerToRemove, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/></span>
>             <xsl:call-template name="smallCaps">
>               <xsl:with-param name="inString"
> select="substring-after($inString, $lowerToRemove)"/>
>             </xsl:call-template>
>           </xsl:when>
>           <xsl:otherwise> <!-- test="contains($upperTest, '+')" -->
>             <span class="smallCapLower"><xsl:value-of
> select="translate($upperTest, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/></span>
>           </xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ------------------------------
>
> HTML File
> (I modified the actual output a bit so that it would be
> nicely formatted.
> Otherwise, it's a very long line.)
> ------------------------------
> <html>
>   <head>
>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=UTF-8">
>     <title>Small Cap Test</title>
>   </head>
>   <style type="text/css">
>     .smallCapUpper {
>       font-size: Larger
>     }
>     .smallCapLower
>       font-size: Smaller
>     }
>   </style>
>   <body>
>     <h1>
>       <span class="smallCapUpper">A S</span>
>       <span class="smallCapLower">TRING TO </span>
>       <span class="smallCapUpper">R</span>
>       <span class="smallCapLower">ENDER IN </span>
>       <span class="smallCapUpper">S</span>
>       <span class="smallCapLower">MALL </span>
>       <span class="smallCapUpper">C</span>
>       <span class="smallCapLower">APS</span>
>     </h1>
>   </body>
> </html>
> ------------------------------
>
> Jay Bryant
> Bryant Communication Services
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