RE: National Language Collating Sequences and Index Ge

> In XSLT 1.0, xsl:sort sorts strings lexically by Unicode code point
> number, IIRC.

Not necessarily: it's rather implementation-dependent. The spec encourages
implementors to support the Unicode Collation Algorithms, parameterized by
the lang attribute of xsl:sort.

But Saxon uses Unicode code-points unless you plug in your own collating
module for the selected language (which you can do).
>
> In XSLT/XPath 2.0, you can have named collating sequences, but you
> shouldn't expect the ones you need are provided by the runtime
> system

Saxon 7.0 allows you to select any collation supported by your particular
Java runtime, or to use the Java facilities to define your own.

Michael Kay
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