RE: sorting by date

Hello Mike !

> The spec isn't completely unambiguous on the point,
Do you mean the following ?
"The sort must be stable: in the sorted list of nodes, any sub list that has
sort keys that all compare equal must be in document order."
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html#sorting)

>but the general
> consensus, I think, is that order=descending should give the reverse of
> order=ascending, including for duplicates.
>

Ok, but Saxon and Xalan produce

		<Item id="8">
                <Date>17042000</Date>
            </Item><Item id="3">
                <Date>22121999</Date>
            </Item><Item id="2">
                <Date>07071999</Date>
            </Item><Item id="9">
                <Date>11011999</Date>
            </Item><Item id="1">
                <Date>02111998</Date>
            </Item><Item id="4">
                <Date>02111998</Date>
            </Item><Item id="5">
                <Date>02111998</Date>
            </Item><Item id="6">
                <Date>02111998</Date>
            </Item><Item id="7">
                <Date>02111998</Date>
            </Item><Item id="10">
                <Date>10071998</Date>
            </Item>

All Item with the same sort key value are in document order.
So, who is on the right road ?

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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International


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