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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Is this a sorting bug in xalan 6.4.0? Play the video Subject: Re: Is this a sorting bug in xalan 6.4.0? From: Stan Dyck <sgd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:47:45 -0800 On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:51 PM, Roger Glover wrote: I am sure there are lots of people here who can trump my experience handily, but is my expectation that spaces will be significant in string sorting, at least by default, really *that* parochial? This was my thinking as well. There's more though. It appears that in addition to the space character, xalan also ignores "-" as well. I found a bug report on the xalan bugzilla database: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13830 Xalan uses the java.text.Collator object (the compare method) to compare strings, probably because it does locale-sensitive string comparisons. So if there is anyone to blame in this case, it is Sun. The xalan developers don't appear to consider it a bug. Interestingly, the String object's compareTo method sorts strings with spaces and minus signs as I would expect because it does a lexicographic comparison. Presumably, String.compareTo is not necessarily locale-specific, otherwise, why provide a separate object like Collator just for comparing strings. I'm curious at how Saxon does string comparisons for the purpose of implementing xsl:sort. StanD. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list Current Thread Is this a sorting bug in xalan 6.4.0? Stan Dyck - Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:01:27 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:31:12 -0500 (EST) Roger Glover - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:49:29 -0500 (EST) Stan Dyck - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 02:46:29 -0500 (EST) <= Michael Kay - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:47:34 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:40:09 -0500 (EST) Roger Glover - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:26:11 -0500 (EST) <Possible follow-ups> David . Pawson - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:04:50 -0500 (EST) <- Previous Index Next -> RE: Is this a sorting bug in , Roger Glover Thread RE: Is this a sorting bug in , Michael Kay Re: a quick question re: &nbs, Marco Guazzone Date RE: a quick question re: &nbs, Julian Reschke Month

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