Re: [xml] XPath normalize-string

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 14:53:53 EDT


On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 04:44:15PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> While I was at it, I also implemented the substring-before, substring-after,
> and translate functions.
>
> The translate implementation is fairly naive, and probably doesn't work for
> all cases of UTF-8 strings, but a naive implementation is still better than
> none.

  right, but you can expect the XPath strings to be in UTF8 too so a simple
compare would do it if the input string is a correct UTF8 input.
  
> Regarding testing, I was unable to use testXPath to test translate because
> it disliked spaces in literal strings, so I wrote a small testing program
> of my own. I have not tested border-line cases though.

  If you have more testcases based on testxPath or would like specific
improvement, send them or request them I will try to comply.

Daniel

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