case insensitive xpath evaluation

[Tahura Chaudhry <ta...@hotmail.com>]

Is it possible to tell Xalan to do case insensitive path search or case 
insensitive comparison (for attribute names and values, etc) when evaluating 
the xpath expression in xalan-java?

thanks,
Tahura Chaudhry

Re: case insensitive xpath evaluation

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

You could try doing some ugly things with using predicate tests... changing
      /foo
to
      /node()["FOO"=localname() or "foo"=localname()]

or doing something with translate() to fold the case so you don't have to
test each version separately.

But this is NOT really recommended. All other XML applications are going to
be case-sensitive, so you're just deferring the problem rather than solving
it. Fix whatever is generating the document.

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