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title: "toupper — To upper case"
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# toupper — To upper case

TOUPPER returns the upper case representation of a value by capitalizing the first character, all words or all characters.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name |
| type | type | chars | Capitilization type |

#### Possible values
Possible values for `type`:
- chars — All characters
- words — All words
- first — First character


### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: string

### Examples

```xml
<output>
	<toupper type="first">bill gates</toupper>
</output>

<!-- Bill gates -->
```

```xml
<output>
	<toupper type="words">bill gates</toupper>
</output>

<!-- Bill Gates -->
```

```xml
<output>
	<toupper>iXML</toupper>
</output>

<!-- IXML -->
```