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Asked: 2026-05-31T12:47:35+00:00

this is a general question regarding XSLT, but since I could not find an

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this is a general question regarding XSLT, but since I could not find an answer I am asking it here.
Is there a global switch in XSLT which will tell the processor to ignore the case?
I found quite a few examples to conver from lower to upper and vice versa but they all work on individual tag/element level.
I am trying to transform an input xml to another xml, but the input xml tags are not consistent in their semantics so if there is a global switch which can tell the processor to ignore case while doing a match it would reduce a lot of redundant code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is there a global switch in XSLT which will tell the processor to
    ignore the case?

    No. Not only the W3C XSLT Specifications don’t specify such a “feature”, but if such option did exist, it would really be harmful.

    Consider an XML document like this:

    <doc>
 <myTable/>
 <MYTable/>
</doc>

    This is an XML document in which the top element has two differently named elements that quite probably have different type (semantics). Treating these two different elements as if they were of the same type would, in the general case, lead to errors.

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