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NIHVIVO-2746 Adjust role descriptors on role forms

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ryounes 2011-06-21 23:22:53 +00:00
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webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/utils/TitleCase.java
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@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ presents some admirably clear rules for capitalizing titles:
(1) a, an, and the,
(2) two and three letter conjunctions (and, or, nor, for, but, so, yet),
(3) prepositions.
Exceptions: The first and last words are always capitalized even
if they are among the above three groups.
Exceptions: The first word is always capitalized even
if it is among the above three groups. For the last word, we can specify the
option to always capitalize it or to treat it like a medial word. The original
method always capitalized the final word, so to support the old method calls
we have defined another method to provide this as default behavior.
But consider the case:
"It Waits Underneath the Sea"
@ -34,14 +38,19 @@ The default entries on the exception list are:
to of by at for but in with has
de von
The observant may note that the last row is not composed of English words. The honorary
"de" has been included in honor of "Honoré de Balzac". And "von" was added for the sake
"de" has been included in honor of "Honore' de Balzac". And "von" was added for the sake
of equal time.
*/
public class TitleCase {
static String ignore[] = {"a","an","the","and","or","nor","for","but","so","yet",
"to","of","by","at","for","but","in","with","has","de","von"};
public static String toTitleCase(String in) {
// Support old behavior without modifying method calls
return toTitleCase(in, true);
}
public static String toTitleCase(String in){
public static String toTitleCase(String in, boolean alwaysCapitalizeLast){
if( in == null || in.length() ==0 )
return in;
@ -55,9 +64,12 @@ public class TitleCase {
while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
String token = st.nextToken();
//always capatize first and last
if( count == 1 || count == last ){
// always capitalize first
if ( count == 1 ||
// always capitalize last, unless we've asked not to
( alwaysCapitalizeLast && count == last ) ) {
out.append(capitalizeWord(token));
} else {
//check if on ignored list