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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _transliterate (self, text, outFormat):
 """ Transliterate the text to the target transliteration scheme."""

        result = []
        for c in text:
            if c.isspace(): result.append(c)
            try: 
                result.append(self[c].equivalents[outFormat.name])
            except KeyError:
                result.append(_unrecognised(c))
        return result