lower case the first character of a string using only xslt 1.0

Question

I have seen patterns for translating a string into lower (or upper case) using the translate function for folks stuck using xslt 1.0.

Is there a elegant way of just making the first letter of a string lowercase?

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Stitching

Answer 1

If your string were, for example, in an attribute called name:

<xsl:value-of select="concat(translate(substring(@name, 1, 1), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), substring(@name, 2))"/>

Martlet

Answer 2

You should be able to combine substring and concat with translate to do it like so:

concat(translate(substring(s,1,1), $smallcase, $uppercase),substring(s,2))

Abnormality

Answer 3

Use the XPath translate function, having separated the string into first character and the rest. This will require somewhat long winded XSLT using multiple variables to hold intermediate results.

Intravasation

Answer 4

XSLT has a substring function, so you could use that pattern with the substring function to get what you want.

Inhuman