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003 *
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009 */
010package org.kew.rmf.transformers;
011
012/**
013 * This transformer strips non ASCII alphabetic characters (A to Z, a to z), replacing
014 * them with a space.
015 * <br/>
016 * Could often be combined with {@link NormaliseDiacriticalMarksTransformer} first.
017 *
018 * @see StripNonAlphabeticCharactersTransformer for retaining accented characters etc.
019 */
020public class StripNonAsciiAlphabeticCharactersTransformer extends RegexTransformer {
021
022        public StripNonAsciiAlphabeticCharactersTransformer() {
023                super.setPattern("[^A-Za-z]");
024                super.setReplacement(" ");
025        }
026}