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functx:format-as-title-en

Moves title words like "the" and "a" to the end of strings

Description

The functx:format-as-title-en function treats a sequence of strings like titles, moving the words "A", "An" and "The" to the end.

Arguments and Return Type

Name	Type	Description
`$titles`	`xs:string*`	the titles to format
return value	`xs:string*`

XSLT Function Declaration

See XQuery definition.

XSLT 2.0 Syntax:

<xsl:function name="functx:format-as-title-en" as="xs:string*" 
              xmlns:functx="http://www.functx.com" >
  <xsl:param name="titles" as="xs:string*"/> 
 
   <xsl:variable name="wordsToMoveToEnd"
                 select="('A', 'An', 'The')"/>
   <xsl:for-each select="$titles">
     <xsl:variable name="title" select="."/>
     <xsl:variable name="firstWord"
          select="functx:substring-before-match($title,'\W')"/>
     <xsl:sequence select="if ($firstWord = $wordsToMoveToEnd)
          then replace($title,'(.*?)\W(.*)', '$2, $1')
          else $title"/>
   </xsl:for-each>
 
</xsl:function>

Examples

XSLT Example	Results
`functx:format-as-title-en( ('A Midsummer Night''s Dream', 'The Merchant of Venice', 'Hamlet'))`	`('Midsummer Night's Dream, A', 'Merchant of Venice, The', 'Hamlet')`