Hi Charles,

> I am transforming a bibliography into HTML using MLA, Chicago, etc.
> formats, where I want to have a period after the author, book title,
> etc. Sometimes my data comes with the period already attached, and
> sometimes not, so I need a way of using xsl:if to test if the last
> character is a period or not.

Use the substring() function to get the last character of a string.
The following tests whether the last character of the string value of
the current node is a period:

  substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'

Cheers,

Jeni

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