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"Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > And when you do find rules written down for things like collating sequences, > you only need to pick up a dictionary, gazetteer, or phone book, to find > that no-one follows the rules anyway. I'm very sceptical of all "standards" > in this area. This isn't surprising. Look at ISO 14651 and http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10 for a glimpse how complex localised sorting actually can get. No wonder the XSLT editors weaseled out of this issues while pretending to support localisation, by refering to other standard body's work in progress and poorly documented Java implementations. Will the next version of the XSLT standard contain a full specification for localised sorting and number formats? (don't take this too serious...) Well, at least ISO 14651 has been finished in the meanwhile. Will the next XSLT standard include date/time handling and formatting? Or a sort data type "date" as cartainly required for compatibility with XSchema (a recurring question on this list)? Or localised floating point numbers as sort data type? (I belive the XSchema people finally dropped the idea of permitting localisation of floats). Localisation issues will become much more interesting... Regards J.Pietschmann XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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