Re: [docbook-apps] Initcap function

[David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>]

> From dvd@davidashen.net Sat Feb 07 00:50:37 2004
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:56:51 -0800 (PST)
> From: vhikida@inreach.com
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
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> Subject: [docbook-apps] Initcap function
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this question.
>
> I was wondering if there is an xsl technique or function which I can use
> to create text with initial capitalizations e.g.
>
> "New York" = initcap("NEW york")
>
> The closest I found is translate("NEW york","abcd..z","ABCD..Z") which is
> not what I really need.

If you need it in the presentation form, then it can be done
by text-transform="capitalize" in XSL 1.0 (XSL FO). I think
text-transform: capitalize is present in CSS too.

This will not create capitalized text, but rather will represent
the text as capitalized.

David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/